| LABOHEME | Opera which begins and ends in a garret |
| ONCEINALIFETIME | Talking Heads song which begins: "And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack" (4,2,1,8) |
| SQUIGGLE | Wavy doodle starts in a squirm and ends in a wriggle (8) |
| JOUISSANCE | Feeling of enjoyment that "begins with a tickle" and "ends in a blaze of petrol," per Jacques Lacan |
| AIRILY | Tune, one with lovely start and end, in a casual way (6) |
| TURNOUTWELL | Unwell tutor to recuperate and end in a good state (4,3,4) |
| BEARAWAY | Long distance walking route in SW Republic of Ireland that begins and ends in Glengarriff, County Cork (5,3) |
| VIRUS | Begins and ends in virtuous computer problem (5) |
| ATTICSELLER | Proprietor of a store in a garret? |
| ATTIC | At nervous movement in a garret |
| REGISTRAR | Just for the record, Sir is to be found in a garret |
| WISDOM | "A poem begins in delight and ends in ___": Frost |
| URBANSPRAWL | Unrestricted city expansion ... and what begins in the circled letters (and ends in uncircled ones for you to find) |
| SANCTUARY | Safe place of refuge begins in sanitarium and ends in mortuary about a hundred (9) |
| POEM | It "begins in delight and ends in wisdom": Robert Frost |
| ESSAY | "History begins in novel and ends in ____" (Thomas Macaulay) |
| APOEM | "__ begins in delight and ends in wisdom": Frost |
| THREESOMES | Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones |
| LANDINGSTRIP | Succeeded in winning holiday that begins and ends here? |
| OBAMA | Only US president whose last name begins and ends with a vowel |
