| ARRANT | Progressed quickly in skill, being thorough |
| BRACED | Supported bishop progressed quickly (6) |
| FAINTHEART | Glad to gain the skill, being timorous (5,5) |
| TRACHEA | Airway with skill being set up, mostly inexpensive (7) |
| STRATEGIST | I acquire skills being brought up on street, in general |
| OUTANDABOUT | Convalescent being thorough, taking in a book (3,3,5) |
| DUTCHTYPING | Keying-in skill, in a first language? |
| MARITIME | One engaged in skill in theatrical performance beside the sea |
| DOTTINGTHE | Being thorough in doing the rounds sober with island left abandoned, say, on Stockton bridge? (7,3,2 |
| INDEPTH | Elected (given office), hard being thorough (2-5) |
| CONSCIENTIOUS | Cousin notices errors, being thorough |
| OUTANDOUT | Dismissed twice, being thorough (3-3-3) |
| EXTENSIVE | I have to go after former numbers, being thorough (9) |
| INTENSIVE | Tin is even used, being thorough (9) |
| METICULOUS | I muscle out crook, being thorough (10) |
| RADICAL | Laid car out, being thorough (7) |
| PROFOUND | Being thorough, golf club has filled coaching job |
| EXTENDED | Old lover had habit of being thorough |
| EXHAUSTIVE | I have to pursue waste gases, being thorough |
| RIVALED | Matched, as in skill |
