| HEATHROBINSON | Over-complicated airport unfinished with, oddly, no bins (5-8) |
| RAY | He's brainy, using no bin! (3) |
| DIESELENGINES | Polluters stop getting smellier, oddly - no good in El Salvador |
| NORTHNORTHWEST | Oddly no new direction for bygone film? (5-5-4) |
| DECEASED | Passed over complicated case in legal title (8) |
| CRINOLINE | Material copy, unfinished with no shape |
| COLUMBUS | Explorer's obelisk unfinished with funding to be raised (8) |
| CAMSHAFT | Engine part arrived unfinished, with small handle (8) |
| HAYDN | Composer didn't have 'unfinished', with end of symphony penned (5) |
| THECOLONELSLADY | Kipling's skin-deep relationship with the Raj lay closed, oddly no guy involved (3,8,4,4,6) |
| SCENARIO | Envisaged sequence of events - oddly, no race is included (8) |
| AKRON | Oddly, no ark in this Ohio metropolis (5) |
| TORTUOUSLY | Sack lousy tutor using over-complicated approach (10) |
| ENFAMILLE | Home ground unfinished, with little space originally to house footballers (2,7) |
| BRONZINO | Artist's sculpture unfinished, with one word of refusal |
| WHOLEMEALBREAD | Doctor left home-brewed ale unfinished with a part of healthy diet? |
| FAFF | Over-complicated task (4) |
| MULBERRY | Deep Purple happy to cover lullaby? Oddly, no! |
| ARIA | Song in Hair, Aida? Oddly, no |
| ENNIS | Irish town you might have been in first? Oddly, no |
