| SHOWDOG | Prove setter perhaps can be best in class, eventually (4,3) |
| ULTIMATE | Last can be best (8) |
| ANTIBES | It may be best in a French resort (7) |
| AFRICAN | Nigerian perhaps can be after fair treatment |
| FEATHER | Though ticklish, perhaps, can be taken lightly (7) |
| PETTING | Deeply personal feeling in fat cat, perhaps can end in sacking (5,7) |
| TINDALL | Boss of Zara Home, perhaps, can initially deal with everything (7) |
| LATINOS | Mexicans perhaps can split SE Asian country (7) |
| OPTIMUM | Choose one relation to be best (7) |
| BASSETS | Dogs might be best to guard the animal (7) |
| TROUNCE | Their hollow measure could be best? (7) |
| OPTIMAL | Rice, e.g. squeezed by stone, must be best (7) |
| NEATEST | Cattle, at the end, stop half way to be best kept (7) |
| MACHETE | One who might be best to hide revolutionary weapon |
| HONESTY | Toy hens turn out to be best policy (7) |
| CAPPED | Excelled in height to be best in the competition |
| OYSTERS | Bivalve molluscs considered luxury foods, said to be best eaten during months containing the letter "R" when the sea is at its coldest (7) |
| PARSNIP | Traditionally said to be best after the first frost, a root vegetable used for savoury rsti, game chips, sweet cakes or warm salads with puy lentils/walnuts (7) |
| SENTENCE | Life perhaps can be represented in a few words (8) |
| YELLOWSTONE | Citrine perhaps can be drawcard for tourists, largely in Wyoming (11) |
