| LAIDBACK | Put down having returned relaxed (4-4) |
| TRAPDOOR | Actor's way down, having rejected screen role (8) |
| PENDANTS | Things hanging down having power to exterminate insects (8) |
| DECLINED | Went down, having said one wouldn't (8) |
| FLOWERED | First of freesias brought down, having bloomed (8) |
| PROSTATE | Lying down having lost right organ (8) |
| ABDICATE | Step down having brought up police officers in decline (8) |
| DEFLATED | Felt let down, having let the air out? (8) |
| PLACATES | Calms down, having a time visiting locations (8) |
| BACKDOWN | Withdraw, having returned to humbler position? |
| NARRATED | Man on island, having returned, told tale (8) |
| BACKFIRE | Having returned, dismiss report |
| RETICENT | Is uncommunicative, it having returned in the notlong-ago (8) |
| FEEDBACK | What cooks do having returned to get evaluation (8) |
| IMPRISON | Jail troublemaker having returned negative response to officer |
| BAREBACK | Sound of animal having returned without a saddle |
| TEARDROP | Draw apart and flop down, having a bit of a cry (8) |
| CANNIBAL | Girl in Channel Islands workplace having returned might be to his taste? (8) |
| RESTINGONESCASE | Putting luggage down having no more legal points (7,4,4) |
| TOIL | Having returned, I put in a great deal of work (4) |
