| THENAKEDCHEF | Only the bare essentials for a meal... (3,5,4) |
| ANOSEFORNEWS | Keen Stringer has one of the essentials for a good gossip? (1,4,3,4) |
| NUDISTS | They believe in only the bare necessities (7) |
| SUNSCREENS | Essentials for a beach holiday? (10) |
| STRIPPEDDOWN | Reduced to the bare essentials (8,4) |
| ARGO | Taking the bare essentials, head off on a ship of legends (4) |
| PLAYMATE | Model showing the bare essentials? |
| STRIPDOWN | Reduce to the bare essentials |
| DENUDES | Reduces to the bare essentials (7) |
| MEATANDPOTATOES | The bare essentials, so to speak |
| UNDRESS | Get down to the bare essentials (7) |
| SKELETONCREW | The staff down to the bare bones presumably working on the archaeological dig (8,4) |
| MUSEUMPIECES | The bare bones of our natural history perhaps to ponder at university on Medium-Sized Allotments (6,6) |
| TINDERBOX | A container for flint, steel and other essentials for kindling fire from a spark; or, by extension, anything potentially dangerous or explosive (9) |
| KEEP | Write regular entries in (a diary); own or look after (an animal or shop); the cost of clothes, food and other essentials for living; or, a donjon (4) |
| VITALS | In the glass tubes Tom initially kept the essentials for life (6) |
| ICE | A few of the basic essentials for some winter weather (3) |
| HANDTOMOUTH | Providing only bare essentials (4-2-5) |
| UNDERCLOTHING | Noted lurching performing in bare essentials only? (13) |
| TROWEL | Name a tool essential for a bricklayer or the like (6) |
