| REPAY | Return a favour |
| REQUITE | Quieter model to return a favour (7) |
| RECIPROCATE | Return a favour or benefit (11) |
| PAYITFORWARD | Day trip for WA? Return a favour to someone else in this movie (3,2,7) |
| OWES | Has to return a favor, e.g. |
| INKIND | Equitable way to return a favor |
| OWE | Need to return a favor to |
| OWED | Needed to return a favor to |
| ECHO | A radar's return, a mountain's mimic, a hollow chamber's ghost, a sonic boomerang or a nymph for whom Narcissus didn't yearn (4) |
| PAYOFF | Word for a reward/return; a bribe; a desirable result; settlement in retribution; or, denouement (3-3) |
| LILAC | I return a call about a shrub |
| LITTLEWOMEN | Jo and Beth, say, landed a heavy blow in return, a warning sign |
| ENTRECOTE | Sci-fi film - invest in one, a sure thing to return a good cut |
| ALOHA | A Spanish greeting: in return, a Hawaiian greeting (5) |
| AFAR | Air Force on a return, a long way off (4) |
| OTHELLO | To return a greeting from a Shakespearean play (7) |
| CIGAR | Tragically without a match, has to return a smoke |
| ETNA | Return a poker stake placed on a fiery mount (4) |
| DAIRYMAID | In return, a great many help girl with a milk pail (9) |
| EXTRADITION | The formal process where one country asks another to return a person to stand trial or serve a sentence (11) |
