| PARSIFAL | Plays as expected fail to develop into opera |
| DOUGLASFIR | Gourds fail to develop into a source of timber (7,3) |
| ABDUCTION | A tic, bound to develop into a seizure (9) |
| MARKTWAIN | Evangelist I want to develop into a writer (4,5) |
| BECOME | It may suit one to develop into it (6) |
| TADPOLE | Swimmer hoping to develop into a jumper (7) |
| MACHETE | Teach me to develop into a hacker |
| MAESTRI | Armies need time to develop into professionals (7) |
| MANET | Meant to develop into artist |
| SEED | Ripened ovule of a fruit or flower that is dispersed to develop into another plant |
| SPORE | Small reproductive cell able to develop into a new individual without sexual fusion, produced by seedless plants, algae, fungi and some protozoans (5) |
| STEM | ____ cell, one with potential to develop into other cells in the body (4) |
| RUNTOSEED | Fail to develop and hurry to call on dunderhead (3,2,4) |
| STAGNATE | Fail to develop stage, involving nationalist just briefly |
| ISLEOFMAN | Faceless gnomes fail to develop tax haven (4,2,3) |
| HITTHEBUFFERS | Fail to develop further (3,3,7) |
| MET | Ran into opera house (3) |
| MIKADO | Fuss after Kipling's work is turned into opera (6) |
| LADIDA | Pretentious daughter getting into "opera on line" |
| SUGAR | Running back into opera gushes for a term of endearment |
