| PLAYTHING | Retired doctor holds ordinary, slender toy (9) |
| COAL | Fuel cell's casing holds ordinary acid, primarily (4) |
| PAPILLON | Small slender toy spaniel with long hair and flared ears; French, 'butterfly' (8) |
| INTERVENE | American doctor holds empty vase with energy to mediate (9) |
| REGISTRAR | Meaning conveyed by less common retired doctor |
| HARDGRAFT | Demanding work a retired doctor's given during hospital transplant |
| DOLLAR | Money doctor holds back everything ___ and nothing (6) |
| MARMOSET | Monkey's limb doctor holds to fix |
| CODE | The doctor holds back a secret way to communicate |
| DOOR | Doctor holds eggs in entrance (4) |
| VENT | Animal doctor holds no opening (4) |
| DIM | Gloomy doctor holds one up |
| OPENING | Round figure doctor holds up in window, perhaps |
| GAP | Doctor holds a disparity (3) |
| ODD | Good doctor holds that it's strange either way (3) |
| LOMBARDY | See doctor, retired doctor, in a yard in Italian region |
| MARCO | He's come from Italy for a change of air, the doctor holds (5). |
| THEHUNTFOR | Doctor holds empty bottle after fourteenth cocktail gulping leads to hilarious results, with 26Dn 5Dn (3,4,3,3,7) |
| REDOCTOBER | Doctor holds empty bottle after fourteenth cocktail gulping leads to hilarious results, with 26Dn 5Dn (3,4,3,3,7) |
| PLATING | Retired doctor adopting language as armour (7) |
