| BRIEFCASE | Paper- receptacle gets a short trial (9) |
| BAG | Brown paper receptacle for an 8-Across |
| BREAK | The busy baker gets a short rest from the work (5) |
| BETRAYAL | Wager Mr Charles gets a short beer, it's disloyalty (8) |
| LAMPOON | Bird gets a short charge to take off (7) |
| GRADUATES | Could be more than one BA guard flying on a short trial |
| ASTONISH | A short trial of narcotic intravenously, so he starts to stagger (8) |
| TRIBAL | Ethnic short trial balance perhaps |
| DEMOTES | Downgrades protest by short trial |
| SKATES | Ask about short trial for ice-dance equipment (6) |
| BRIEFCASES | What lawyers carry during short trials? (10) |
| EXAMS | Cut up manuscript for short trials (5) |
| CONTESTS | Scan carefully before short trials in some tournaments (8) |
| CONTAINER | Receptacle such as a basket, chest, hamper, tea caddy, trunk; or, a freight vehicle's large cargo box (9) |
| HERBARIUM | From Latin for "grass, green crops", a word for a systematically arranged hortus siccus, or "dried garden", of classified mounted preserved plants; or, the building, receptacle or room in which such a |
| SALADBOWL | Initially see a boy make a delivery ___ large receptacle (5,4) |
| RELIQUARY | A receptacle for holy remains (9) |
| LITTERBIN | A receptacle for waste paper and other rubbish (6,3) |
| PUNCHBOWL | Receptacle that contains a handful of something (9) |
| CARPETBAG | About right - a favourite receptacle proverbially useful for political blow-ins (9) |
