| OBTUSER | Rambling rose, but more dull (7) |
| HIKED | Price rose but got the thumbs up (5) |
| THORN | Part of rose, but navy (5) |
| FLATTER | Insincerely praise, though more dull (7) |
| MATTERS | More dull small affairs (7) |
| STAIDER | More dull dismissing evergreen St John's man, perhaps |
| BLUNTER | More dull |
| PRICIER | Promotion less heated but more costly (7) |
| THINNER | Solvent but more drawn (7) |
| GREENER | Less mature but more ecologically sound (7) |
| COARSER | A score, possibly right but more vulgar (7) |
| BALMIER | Madder, but more pleasant a temperature (7) |
| GLAZIER | Window fitter, a legend, but more idle (7) |
| TACKIER | Stickier, but more shabby? (7) |
| PETTIER | Less plain, lacking resistance, but more trivial (7) |
| NUTTIER | Like a professor in the cinema, but more so? Teachers bank on it (7) |
| CALIPER | Remade replica - but more than one is required for measuring (7) |
| TIGHTER | At end of cloudburst the rig is moving but more firmly fixed (7) |
| SANJOSE | Dionne Warwick asked if you know the way to this city, possibly the capital of Costa Rica, but more |
| PROPTER | Lit. near by (iuxta) but more commonly, on account of (ob) |
