| ANYNEON | Question about the availability of a gas for signs? |
| NEON | Gas for signs |
| CHEMICAL | Their populations depend on physical, biological and ___ properties of the soil as well as the availability of food and their ability to reproduce and distribute. |
| DEFLATED | Reduced the availability of, as currency |
| LIQUIDITY | Fluidity, it's the availability of certain assets (9) |
| SAGA | Turn up a gas for the seniors' holiday group (4) |
| CHEROOTS | It's brave to rise in a gas for smoking (8) |
| PARQUETRY | The usual question about the last bit of carpet needed for floor covering? (9) |
| ORATOR | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music (6) |
| WRITER | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music |
| WEATHEREYE | A keenly watchful glance, ever alert for signs of change or a meteorological shift, just as an old salt or mariner might watch for a coming gale, red sky at morning, squall or stormy drift (7,3) |
| WHEREISTHELIE | "You can't deny it," and a good question about the answers to the starred clues |
| VENICEDESSERT | Question about the timing of an Italian dinner course? |
| HOWS | It is a question about the old man's health (4,4,6) |
| YOURFATHER | It is a question about the old man's health (4,4,6) |
| QATARI | Question about the American Revolution is primarily a national one (6) |
| WHOHURTYOU | Question about the origins of someone's bad attitude |
| WHIMSY | Question about the writer's small expression of fantasy (6) |
| TWOBSORNOTTWOBS | Frequent question about the spelling of "Caribbean"? |
| DEALIO | "What's the ___?", datedly hip question about the situation (6) |
