| PAGODA | Place of worship whose third, fourth and fifth letters are appropriate |
| SIGNOR | Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters |
| INDUCTION | Admission that opening piece lacks third, fourth and fifth (9) |
| ROYALPECULIAR | Place of worship whose superior is the Queen |
| SYNAGOGUE | A place of worship whose spiritual leader is a rabbi (9) |
| FEDEX | Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters |
| COMEHERE | Command sometimes shortened by removing its second, fourth, and fifth letters |
| TRE | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |
| ALIT | Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters |
| EMCEE | Word shortened from a three-word phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters |
| SRTA | Abbreviated title without the second, third, fourth and sixth letters |
| RIVERS | Fourth, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth letters, all going to the third, reportedly? (6) |
| DITHER | Be undecided about third and fifth letter (6) |
| RATHER | Definitely second, third and the fifth letters of 'prairie' (6) |
| DIXXSIONS | Third, fourth and so on |
| FROOT | Cereal box word whose third and fourth letters are stylized as bits of cereal |
| GEAR | First, second, third, fourth or fifth items of clothing? (4) |
| CUBOID | Bone of the tarsus connected to the heel bone and fourth and fifth metatarsals (6) |
| REPEAT | A copy; a motif duplicated in a pattern; a retracing of one's course; or, a second, third, fourth etc broadcast of a radio/television programme (6) |
| MAKEENDSMEET | Ensure objectives are appropriate, and budget carefully |
