| REEDPIPE | Ready to catch curiously deep wind instrument (4,4) |
| BASSOON | Deep wind instrument |
| GODEEP | Get ready to catch a long pass |
| SHORTSTOP | This baseball player stands in the infield, ready to catch a pop up that doesn't fly far |
| DRLFT | Deep wind-driven bank of the cold white matter described in 16 Across; or, a blanket of flowers such as Christmas roses or those in the genera Crocus, Cyclamen, Galanthus or Narcissus (5) |
| DRIFT | Deep wind-driven bank of the cold white matter described in 16 Across; or, a blanket of flowers such as Christmas roses or those in the genera Crocus, Cyclamen, Galanthus or Narcissus (5) |
| TIGHTWAD | One, curiously, starts to hide when it's time to give any donations (8) |
| BUSHBABY | Bishop beginning to upbraid curiously shabby primate |
| ASSIGNED | Delegated to Sade curiously over omen (8) |
| ANCESTOR | Contributor to person's descent or ascent, curiously (8) |
| ASPIRANT | One with ambition given snake to train, curiously |
| AQUATINT | Time to stop a curiously old-fashioned etching technique |
| LIEABEDS | Having abseiled, curiously they're slow to rise |
| JODHPURS | Jack and Rod push curiously to get riding trousers (8) |
| SEQUENCE | Curiously queens go to church in the correct order (8) |
| ARSONIST | Trains so curiously to be a criminal |
| HAUTBOIS | One to a bush, curiously large strawberry |
| REAPPEAR | Penny overwhelmed by rare ape curiously getting to come into view again (8) |
| UBERGEEK | Curiously Burke admits surprise for the one with the best anorak? (8) |
| TIMEWORN | Remit now curiously showing effects of old age (4-4) |
