| DISMISSAL | Sacking is stored at first with poor quality cover (9) |
| TINPLATED | Rust-proofed with poor quality paint and let down (3-6) |
| SMALLS | Underwear safely stored at first outside precinct |
| CRYOSTAT | Vessel in which something is stored at a low temperature (8) |
| SOLIDITY | It has firm quality: cover it in sauce (8) |
| HOLDGOOD | Apply top-quality cover for Spooner |
| PREMIUM | High quality cover charge? (7) |
| GRENADINE | Syrup of pineapple that's stored at home (9) |
| DEFROSTED | Had food retrieved and stored at sea thawed out (9) |
| SCIENTIST | Self-contained individual at a hospital department at first, with a physicist, say (9) |
| BLOWTORCH | It produces intense flame, burning at first with blue light (9) |
| TRENCHANT | Cutting the roast at first with charm (9) |
| WASTELAND | Desert was teeming at first with antelope (9) |
| DECKCHAIR | Pack case, at first, with fleece - it's useful on Blackpool beach (9) |
| SEARCHERS | They are looking for second eleven, at first, with a Long-running soap, on air (9) |
| RUMINATES | After drink, in a tavern at first with a couple of bridge players, thinks carefully (9) |
| SURRENDER | Cede most of county, no doubt at first with hesitation |
| UNTRIMMED | Turned out coats the setter's put on market at first with no reductions |
| READINESS | Inclination to study Italian at first with head |
| BOWLSOVER | Floors warp slowly at first with buff carpeting (5,4) |
