| GASBOTTLE | Plastic bag's too much like empty fuel cylinder |
| CORRODE | Rust in part of reactor containing fuel cylinder? (7) |
| GAS | Fuel cylinder stuff |
| FLASKS | Enquires after empty fuel bottles |
| MILKFLOATS | Exploit empty fuel vessels, say - wanting lead for electric vehicles? (4,6) |
| OVER | Like pie? Perhaps too much like eggs? |
| SPOTTED | Raced around too much, like a cheetah |
| OVERLAP | Stray over the boundary and drink too much like a cat? (7) |
| EASY | How eggs cooked too much like pie? (4,4) |
| MOTTLED | Blotchy mark too much like skin disfiguring face (7) |
| SEAGOD | Silver bearings in front - too much like Neptune |
| BIG | Talks too much - like an airfield sock (3,3,2,4) |
| BAGOFWIND | Talks too much - like an airfield sock (3,3,2,4) |
| OVEREASY | Way of cooking eggs, too much like a piece of cake? (4,4) |
| POLYTHENE | The development of this material gave us plastic bags in the supermarket and plastic pipes for plumb |
| SOUSVIDE | Slow-cooking method involving plastic bags |
| TROUSERPRESS | Superstores essentially scrap plastic bags - it makes them smart |
| FIJI | Island nation that banned plastic bags (4) |
| GASBALLOON | Plastic bags Belgian hasn't opened, carrier of basket (3,7) |
| BAN | Something that might be put on plastic bags |
