| TWEEZE | Pull out, not always painlessly |
| SYNAPSE | Gap in head treated painlessly, not getting ill (7) |
| ILLNESS | Surprisingly painlessly, get pay out having made complaint |
| INTER | Popular teacher painlessly put under? |
| PUTS | ___ to sleep : kills an animal painlessly ? (4) |
| TANIWHA | What animal painlessly changes into a monster? |
| BURR | Dig down into the ground painlessly for a prickly seedcase (4) |
| UNEATEN | Not out, not bowled, not taken in |
| UNDATED | Not taken out, not having the time? (7) |
| SOMEWHAT | Not all thaw out - not altogether (8) |
| RECENT | The middle out out not long ago (61 |
| NONE | Not one to back out, not one (4) |
| PEBBLY | Exercise catching Peter out, not Sandy? (6) |
| BLAMELESS | Mabel turned out not guite so innocent |
| OMNIVORE | Move in or out, not a fussy eater (8) |
| UNKEPT | Dishevelled maiden thrown out, not treated as mistress? (6) |
| REFUTABLE | True fable turned out not necessarily true (9) |
| MEMENTO | Note copied out not a reminder (7) |
| SOPHISTICATED | Drops aitches it turned out, not right posh (13) |
| CONNOTE | Mean, once out, not to come in |
