| BLOTUP | Second-rate learner will start over when put back to absorb material (4,2) |
| HILLS | Word for the mamelons, monadnocks, monticules, mounds or mounts to which flocks of lekking ruffs are likened and individuals are said to be "over" when put out to grass (5) |
| RIGOROUS | Scrupulous doctor able to absorb material without pressure |
| YACHTS | Stay back to absorb Switzerland crafts (6) |
| INNEREAR | Balance uses this bar at the back to absorb energy (5,3) |
| FIREALARM | It gives warning when company absorbs material damages essentially (4,5) |
| SATURN | When put back, will go round in space (6) |
| LISTEN | Learner will soon be leaving primary school to pay attention |
| RANCID | Having an unpleasant smell when put back on acidic narcotics |
| SLIPUP | When reversing, learners will do the wrong thing (4,2) |
| COGNAC | Drink can go cold when put back |
| ERODES | Slowly destroys when put back in pressed oregano |
| ALPINE | Flower a learner will long for? (6) |
| ASTERN | Central reason wasteful learners will be behind (6) |
| UPDATE | Latest report to give time when Oxford term will start? (6) |
| THREAT | It will start unless that's put outside again (6) |
| ALLEGE | Claim everything, say, will start to expand (6) |
| DWELLS | Germany, "We will start to shorten stays" |
| DACAPO | Score will start again from the beginning (2,4) |
| DIGITS | Figures the archaeological process will start involving trenches soon (6) |
