| TOOTHLESS | Perhaps needing plates inserted, without force |
| GLUTTONOUS | Plate inserted in stomach to sense craving for food (10) |
| ANNUL | Cancel tube to be inserted without ends |
| SHAMPOO | Get lost without map perhaps, needing this to treat shock? |
| SAFEWAY | Store taken over, perhaps needing some investment (7) |
| UNIT | One short term for Oxford perhaps needing extra time (4) |
| GOODOFFICES | Poor on the rink, perhaps, needing special intervention |
| ORLANDO | Gibbons perhaps needing right territory in middle of zoos (7) |
| LUMPSUM | Sugar, perhaps, needing part, say, for complete payment (4,3) |
| DREAR | Gloomy person at surgery perhaps needing attention (5) |
| PRESET | Moggy perhaps needing inside residence organised in advance (6) |
| LOOKINTO | Ladies, perhaps, needing relatives to investigate |
| ONAPLATE | Love to sleep on, perhaps, needing to make little effort |
| STANDPAT | Tolerate postman perhaps needing to be firm about opinion |
| GOALIE | Soccer player perhaps needing a rest after shot |
| DIARIST | Frank perhaps, needing teacher to help, after raising temperature |
| CAULIFLOWER | Dog reportedly rose, perhaps, needing something to eat |
| DRAMATIST | Coward perhaps needing drink at first |
| MASON | Nice house perhaps needing one builder |
| BEANBAG | Runner perhaps needing to reserve somewhere to sit (7) |
