| TWOPENCE | Penny plain, ___ coloured, reference to early comic papers (8) |
| FACETIOUS | Comic paper engages wartime hero with evidence of debts |
| BUNTY | Launched in 1958, which British comic paper became a favourite of girls in many countries? (5) |
| TRISTRAM | Laurence Sterne's early comic novel, The Life And Opinions Of ... Shandy, Gentleman |
| KRAZYKAT | Target of thrown bricks, in early comics |
| STAMFORD | Harold's success at Chelsea the way to early crossings (8,6) |
| VICTROLA | Carbon parts damaged rival to early phonograph (8) |
| BIOGRAPH | How did hip bar go wrong, according to early cinema? (8) |
| TRIASSIC | Referring to early geological period is racist, perhaps (8) |
| TENFIELD | Heritage railway in Gateshead whose origins go back to early colliery (8) |
| GENEPOOL | Circle back to early generations to see biological diversity (4,4) |
| PRIMEVAL | Relating to early life on Earth (8) |
| SKEWERED | Ran through week-end in gutter - leads to early death (8) |
| OVERTURE | An approach to early music? (8) |
| EDENTATE | Start to early depression consumed sloth, say (8) |
| GUWAHATI | Venue of the second Test with an adjusted schedule due to early sunsets. (8) |
| MAMMLUKS | Member of a military class ruling in Egypt from mid-13th to early 19th century (8) |
| MAMELUKE | Member of a military class ruling in Egypt from mid-13th to early 19th century (8) |
| REDBRICK | (Of universities) late 19th- to early 20th-century |
| COLONIAL | Related to early settlement, a ... mansion |
