| ETAILERS | On-line sellers' transport earliest (1-7) |
| TACTICUS | During the 4th century BCE, he wrote On the Defense of Fortifications, one chapter of which was devoted to cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. |
| ELECTRUM | What the earliest metal coins were made of (7) |
| PERVERSE | Deliberately wicked exercises on Rossetti's earliest poetry (8) |
| CUTADASH | Made a big impression earliest in chosen university ... touch wood (3,1,4) |
| GOTTLIEB | And 21. German inventor who, in 1885, built one of the earliest roadworthy motor cars (8,7) |
| CHECKERS | Written in 1951, the earliest successful AI program was a ________, or draughts, program run on a Ferranti Mark I computer (8) |
| OLDSARUM | Site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, on a hill about two miles north of the modern city |
| ONTHEDOT | Going on earliest of trams, he meets Mark at exactly the arranged time (2,3,3) |
| STOPPARD | Leading performer accepting work on earliest of plays by Dutch dramatist (8) |
| BLACKSEA | Earliest of books doesn't have enough on each significant body of water (5,3) |
| BIFOCALS | Story picked up over pubs relinquishing earliest glasses (8) |
| ATELIERS | Earliest form of workshops (8) |
| TREATISE | Discuss the earliest of explorations around Iceland in a written composition |
| SETTLERS | Earliest colonists, e.g. |
| DWELLING | House earliest of detainees somewhere in London |
| PRIMEVAL | Earliest charge office set up |
| GERMINAL | Relating to earliest stages of development |
| PAINTING | Gasping at the inclusion of earliest of Italian artwork |
| MISLEADS | Married ladies fooled by seducer's earliest tricks |
