| FORWARDLOOKING | Progressive, like hospital visitor after parts are swapped? (7,7) |
| REDTAPE | Bureaucracy reached a point when parts are swapped (3,4) |
| EARSHOT | Hearing embarrassed listener has these swapped? (7) |
| VAGUE | Virginia has visitor after leaving street? That's unclear (5) |
| SLUG | Garden visitor after a rainstorm |
| THREEBLINDMICE | Unwelcome visitors after treble hind cut? (5,5,4) |
| SCHNITZELS | Head's unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets (10) |
| FIDDLEHEADFERN | Plant named after part of a musical instrument |
| OUTPUT | Yield was disturbing after parts were swapped (6) |
| HATRED | Violent emotion as parts of cardinal's office are swapped round |
| ONTAP | Available to strike lightly, after parts reversed |
| UPANDDOWN | Fluctuating, or two words needed to understand the starred clues' "After" parts |
| TREATED | Like hospital patients and much lumber |
| DOWNWARD | Sounds like hospital section at the bottom end of the stairway? (8) |
| CHOU | Pastry: it hurts when halves are swapped |
| LOIN | Body part that becomes an animal when its vowels are swapped |
| ABILITY | Sharpness, if boy and girl are swapped can become competence (7) |
| UPRISE | Revolt, and when its two syllables are swapped, a phrase meaning the same thing |
| MILA | Woman's name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped |
| ARTPOP | Music genre that becomes a visual style when its words are swapped |
