| ENDPRODUCT | Prudent doc who diagnosed it as the finished article (3,7) |
| OVERTHETOP | Finished article first and it's too much (4,3,3) |
| PATRIOTISM | Term used to describe devotion to one's own country - Samuel Johnson defined it as 'the last refuge of the scoundrel' |
| PREFAB | Pressure on the man in the middle to give a first booking to new arrival, already the finished article (6) |
| PASTA | Italian dish that's the finished article |
| CATS | "The Phantom of the Opera" overtook it as the longest-running Broadway show |
| SHAWN | On display Use the letters highlighted in the finished puzzle to spell seasonal flowers |
| REITH | General manager (and later managing director) of the British Broadcasting Company who went on to establish it as the BBC (5) |
| IMPLICIT | The little devil gets left and I see it as the absolute end of it (8) |
| YODELLING | Singing by rapidly alternating between the chest and falsetto voices - the earliest reference is from 1545, describing it as "the call of a cowherd from Appenzell" (9) |
| PASSPORT | Get away with it as the chef works on the drink (8) |
| NUMBERS | Counts it as the fourth book of the OT (7) |
| SMITES | For buffets in the mess, arranged it as the centrepiece (6) |
| HUNDRED | Did the Romans figure it as the capital of China? (7) |
| HEM | The finished border of the raw edge of a piece of cloth that has been doubled under and sewn down (3) |
| RAY | X-- Unscramble U bl the th letters l tt highlighted in the finished puzzle to spell a type of red wine. |
| RIGHTTRIANGLE | ELK, geometrically, in the finished puzzle |
| POTLIGHT | One-of-some in the finished basement's ceiling |
| RESULT | The finished effect may be a strange lustre (6) |
| LAD | He's hardly the finished lady's man |
