| SONGTHRUSH | One in flight from roughly shorn thugs (4,6) |
| LOCKHORNS | Rugby player roughly shorn has to engage in combat (4,5) |
| LEI | It's made from roughly 50 blossoms |
| CAESURA | Poet's break from roughly lifting a device |
| ONION | From roughly noon, about, I provide food (5) |
| STAIR | One in flight from one in jail (5) |
| EMIGRE | One in flight from France before plane's boarded |
| GNAT | One in flight from warring nations |
| LAM | In flight from the police |
| KITE | Bird controlled in flight from the ground (4) |
| MIST | It reduces visibility in flights from Istanbul (4) |
| JEANBATTEN | In 1936, who made the first ever solo flight from England to New Zealand? (4,6) |
| GYPSYMOTHS | Members of the lepidoptera after which the British two-seater touring aircraft were named - Amy Johnson used one on her flight from England to Australia (5,5) |
| APPLES | Passenger initially spared as plane crashed in flight from East London (6,3,5) |
| EXPAT | Assistant replacing one in flight - one living abroad |
| EASTCAPE | One in flight accepting brief time in part of New Zealand (4,4) |
| STAIRS | Pegasus, perhaps, consumes one in flight (6) |
| THRUSH | The short run made by one in flight? (6) |
| SWEDE | Look hard at one in flight, say (5) |
| STEP | Dogs perhaps retreating, one in flight |
