| RECEPTIVE | Open-minded creep wasted time - I have to follow |
| CHRONICLE | Sonnet 106: When in the ___ of wasted time / I see descriptions of the fairest wights / And beauty making beautiful old rhyme / In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights |
| PLAINTIVE | After modest time, I have to be sad |
| ASSERTIVE | Fool meeting the queen on time I have found to be forthright (9) |
| OPERATIVE | Crucial time I have after event at Sadler's Wells, maybe (9) |
| FURTIVELY | Time I have left, consumed by rage in secret |
| HOUSEMAID | Domestic legislative body open-minded to donations (9) |
| NARROWEST | Least open-minded brood about weapon |
| DIGESTIVE | I have to follow summary relating to breakdown (9) |
| STIVES | After short time I have to board ship somewhere in Cornwall (2,4) |
| REGENERATIVE | Interim ruler takes time - I have to be making new growth (12) |
| ITERATIVE | I have to follow a trite pattern, repetitious (9) |
| DIRECTIVE | I have to follow dreadful court order (9) |
| EFFECTIVE | I have to follow Eastern females, etc, being represented as useful (9) |
| PRIMITIVE | Simple and proper, I have to follow object (9) |
| OBSESSIVE | I have to follow bosses, terribly fanatical (9) |
| RECLUSIVE | I have to follow right clue's solution, being solitary (9) |
| DECEPTIVE | Misleading month - I have to follow pet around (9) |
| EVOCATIVE | Suggestive, running to cave - I have to follow |
| TENTATIVE | Uncertain quantity I have to follow? Rubbish (9) |