| OVERRIPE | Old dignitary conceals slip, fifth of harvest being past its best |
| AGA | Old dignitary from Ankara |
| NECROPSY | Post-mortem on harvests being constrained by rising Japanese currency (8) |
| POLICECONSTABLE | Force worker to conceal slip and be disingenuous |
| AGO | Indication of time being past (3) |
| OLDIE | Do lie about being past one's prime (5) |
| WASHEDUP | Worked in kitchen, being past it (6-2) |
| OVERFLOW | Flood being past, predatory animal comes back |
| OVERDUE | Finished owing to being past time expected |
| LOP | Cut away from work, being past fifty (3) |
| OVERTHEHILL | Plain the man fell, being past it? (4,3,4) |
| STAPLE | Commodity past its best without smallest amount of preservatives (6) |
| TIRED | Note on type of wine that's past its best |
| FRUIT | From "enjoyment of harvest", a word for an acorn, berry, drupe, grain, hesperidium, nut, pome or other edible part of a plant, whose other Latin sense, "profit, value", is the source of a word meaning |
| OUTWORN | Sadly our town's past its best |
| ASTI | A sparkling wine somewhat past its best (4) |
| PLUMAGED | Birds are, when fruit gets past its best |
| SELLBYDATE | Son gets upset belly with fruit when it's past its best? |
| RUNTOSEED | As a plant past its best will do - rue doesn't, strangely (3,2,4) |
| OVERBLOWN | Past its best, like the balloon about to pop? (9) |
