| UNCLASPS | Releases snakes after the relative falls short (8) |
| PRATTLERS | They gas snakes after beginning to panic (9) |
| ASPS | Snakes after which a type of savoury consomme- or stockbased jelly, used as a glaze or mould, derives its name (4) |
| JERBOA | Almost cure snake after much smaller creature |
| CLASP | Tightly hold snake after getting chlorine (5) |
| UNDERRUN | Word that refers to the degree to which a programme falls short; the action of going, passing or running beneath; or, the current below the surface, whether real or figurative (8) |
| PARALLAX | What is a misalignment in the comparison of two locations due to the relative position of the observer (8) |
| UNTANGLE | Straighten out the relative becoming vitamin-deficient after ingesting an insect from the east (8) |
| STATUSES | The way a team leader employs the relative positions (8) |
| AVERAGES | Means to work out the relative strength of cricketers, say (8) |
| REKINDLE | Reactivate the relatives in the backing of senior figure (8) |
| MINIMUMS | They're the least one expects from most of the relatives in cars (8) |
| BUCKSKIN | Leather made by the relatives of the one they wanted brought back (8) |
| JETTISON | In Paris, I race one of the relatives to dump (8) |
| FLAMBEAU | Torch carried by two sweethearts? The first falls short |
| UNTAUGHT | About start of tutorial, university blue falls short thus after missing lectures? |
| MANIFEST | Demonstrate when party's declaration of intent falls short (8) |
| PIECHART | A circle divided into sections to show the relative proportions of a set of things (3,5) |
| ULLAGE | The quantity by which a container falls short of being full; or, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine in a bottle (6) |
| DOPPLER | Physicist remembered for his explanation of the apparent change in the frequency of a wavelength caused by the relative motion of the source (7) |
