| UNSWEETENED | Plain sun flickering on tiny figure with journalist (11) |
| UNSURE | Sun flickering on Yorkshire river? It's not certain (6) |
| UNSHEATHE | Draw sun flickering over endless evergreen shrubland (9) |
| THUMB | Tiny figure of English folklore (3,5) |
| TOM | Tiny figure of English folklore (3,5) |
| SWEETEN | Pacify tiny figure behind society (7) |
| KIDNEYSTONE | Working on tiny desk with mathematical base for calculus (6,5) |
| MINIATURIST | With onus on "tiny", a word for a limner or painter of small-scale illustrations, manuscript illuminations, pictures or portraits; or, one who makes toy-size figurines and furnishings for dolls' house |
| RUDIMENTARY | To operate on tiny eardrum is fairly basic |
| CLYDE | Keep hot and cold, extremely lucky with a candle flickering on site of 3Dn (5,3,5,5) |
| FORTHAND | Keep hot and cold, extremely lucky with a candle flickering on site of 3Dn (5,3,5,5) |
| CANAL | Keep hot and cold, extremely lucky with a candle flickering on site of 3Dn (5,3,5,5) |
| OBEISANCE | Bow? Beacon is flickering on stern of frigate |
| OSTRICH | Torch is flickering on bird (7) |
| PSYCHEDELIA | Chap's eyelid flickering as the result of LSD? |
| TRANSALPINE | Star in Nepal flickering beyond the mountains |
| MICROBIOLOGY | Course on tiny organisms, attended lyre representatives of a gas company that merged with Exxon |
| NUCLEON | Kings are out of joint on tiny matter (7) |
| RETICENT | Loath to talk about small return on tiny sum of money |
| MILLILITRE | Unwell, I'm upset, drunk on tiny amount of liquid (10) |