| LAYPERSON | Quietly digging into strata, working as amateur |
| TERRAPIN | Creature quietly digging into ground |
| UNPROFESSIONAL | Association about to declare two from Albania as amateur (14) |
| DISARRAY | Confusion, as amateur repairs to cover tapestry put back |
| SHAMANS | Sorcerers appearing as amateur without cloaks (7) |
| WHATASHAME | Pity we recruited bowler, possibly as amateur? (4,1,5) |
| AMANON | New Netflix drama starring Ted Danson as amateur sleuth Charles (1,3,2) |
| THEINSIDE | New Netflix drama starring Ted Danson as amateur sleuth Charles (3,6) |
| PERESTROIKA | Nasty Tories digging into benefit with a particular economic policy (11) |
| ACACIA | Caught digging into source of berries, a flowering shrub (6) |
| EGYPTOLOGY | Googly, type that turns, digging into sand? |
| HUMERUS | Digging into soil ... er ... you'll discover a bone |
| ABRASIVES | Scratchy materials I have for digging into an alloy |
| DECREPIT | Enfeebled councillor digging into river bed |
| THROVE | Digging into hidden store, husband prospered |
| BREAKNEWGROUND | Start digging into how to innovate |
| SUSTAIN | Bear from America digging into soil (7) |
| INGROWN | Fashionable dress includes bit of ribbing digging into flesh (7) |
| ABRADE | Scrape away, start digging into slope (6) |
| BURROWING | Digging into a Mexican buffalo wing? (9) |
