| TOAFAULT | Running flat out, and initially excessively |
| FALTER | Speak brokenly, flat out, and never ending |
| APARTMENT | Suitable to have marten running flat (9) |
| STALE | Tesla's running flat (5) |
| BEAN | British car company, active from 1919 to 1929 and initially successful with high volume sales against Austin and Morris: a good candidate for running on vegetable oil perhaps (4) |
| ALKALI | Compound of aluminium and potassium and initially lithium |
| TORTILLA | The judge thinks it's wrong to be sick as a dog and initially as flat as a pancake (8) |
| ASININE | Foolish, crazy, insane and initially incomprehensible (7) |
| MOONSHINE | Hooch is soon distilled and initially hidden in tunnel (9) |
| NEONATAL | Gas and initially talk nonstop about new arrivals (8) |
| HAIRY | Hirsute and initially risky? Yes! (5) |
| CAPECOD | Resort to monkey business when in clubs and, initially, discos |
| HIGHANDMIGHTY | Very large, drunk and initially arrogant |
| PARLOURGAME | Almost all difficult and initially rather lame charades, perhaps |
| CANTABILE | Hypocrisy and initially bitterness, but in a singing style (9) |
| THING | Object slender and, initially, gaunt (5) |
| FEDORA | Iron rod bends and initially it can be tipped (6) |
| SHAMANIC | Quiet and initially wild like a sorcerer? (8) |
| DULNAIN | Inland and initially uphill meandering Spey tributary (7) |
| AGAPES | Slack-jawed and initially shocked by Christian love-feasts (6) |
