| SCEPTICAL | Places tic appropriately, though given to doubt (9) |
| PREFERRED | Parking adjudicator was wrong, though given promotion (9) |
| TIPPEDOFF | Dumped, though given a warning (6,3) |
| PIONEERED | Started as religious individual before beginning to doubt (9) |
| DEBATABLE | Open to doubt or debate (9) |
| LEAVE | Don't take, though given the OK to (5) |
| HEPCAT | Though given a makeover, the cap is trendy no longer |
| DUBITARE | To doubt and dither, ety. duo + habere, to have two (minds) |
| THINKTWICE | After starting to train women, one church backs reason to doubt (5,5) |
| DWEEB | Nerd starts to doubt whether erudition excites babes (5) |
| PROBLEMATICAL | Open to doubt or debate (13) |
| AGNOSTIC | Cogs ain't moving? I'm inclined to doubt (8) |
| LEADING | Start to doubt being embraced by unusually genial principal (7) |
| OUTOFTHEQUESTION | Impossible, from article, to doubt |
| MEND | Chaps beginning to doubt put right |
| ATTENDEE | One coming when news is on starts to doubt European exit (8) |
| PAGED | Called boy attending bride perhaps starting to doubt (5) |
| DISRAELI | British PM beginning to doubt Salieri, strangely (8) |
| SUSPECT | To doubt or mistrust. (7) |
| DROSS | Beginning to doubt Antarctic ice shelf is worthless stuff (5) |