| LOCHGILPHEAD | Poet Liz accepts predicament, missing the last return to centre of Argyll and Bute (12) |
| DIG | Girlfriend's first, second and last return to mine |
| BETROTH | Promise to marry is nonsense, Liz accepts? (7) |
| BACONRIND | Promise to marry is nonsense, Liz accepts? (7) |
| VOD | Video on demand handovers require return to centre (3) |
| TELAVIV | Old Vauxhall permitted to return to Middle East city (3,4) |
| SCRAPPED | Discarded yet not finished, maybe Johnny Vegas at last returns to host nonsense (8) |
| REMAIN | Last return of Queen chap penning single (6) |
| USURER | A most interesting money lender from America on your last return |
| HAIRSBREADTH | Top managers head off to centre of Heathrow to collect food - it isn't far ... |
| KINTYRE | Peninsula in the south-west of Argyll and Bute, Scotland (7) |
| CRINAN | Village in the Knapdale region of Argyll and Bute after which a canal is named (6) |
| KNAPDALE | Area of Argyll and Bute where beavers have been reintroduced (8) |
| INVERARAY | Town on the western shore of Loch Fyne that is the ancestral home to the Duke of Argyll (9) |
| FOY | Actress whose roles include the Queen in The Crown and the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal |
| ARINAGOUR | Main village on the Isle of Coll, one of 26 inhabited islands that lie off the west coast of Argyll, |
| FAGEND | Fine list of items missing the last bit - the bit that doesn't matter (3,3) |
| LOUISE | Princess -, Duchess of Argyll; sixth of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's nine children whose sculpture of her mother stands near Kensington Palace (6) |
| CREDITCARD | Somehow direct car to centre of Sudan for a component of the cashless society (6,4) |
| KESTREL | Arranged treks to centre of fell to find bird of prey (7) |
