| FREELOVE | Sexual licence to explore finished, with right approaching lead |
| FREE | Sexual licence to explore finished, with right approaching lead (4,4) |
| LEAVE | Sexual licence to explore finished, with right approaching lead (4,4) |
| LOVE | Sexual licence to explore finished, with right approaching lead (4,4) |
| PATH | Way in right approaching roundabout |
| LEWIS | Meriwether, US explorer who, with Clark, led an expedition to explore the lands to the west of the Mississippi in the early 19c (5) |
| SKYE | With 4, 17 start to explore British island (4) |
| BOWEL | Start to explore in wood to find part of canal |
| INSTIGATE | Start to explore: very easy at first to get lost |
| INBETWEEN | Venture we start to explore in pub with intermediary |
| OPERATE | Surgeon will work with tape or start to explore possibly (7) |
| RECONNOITRE | Swindler to enter Rio clandestinely to explore (11) |
| OPIUMDENS | Work with one university doctor starts to explore new systems in drug centres |
| BIGBONGTHEORY | Hypothesis to explore the question "does one get higher with larger equipment?" |
| APOLLO | Name given to a series of manned US spacecraft designed to explore the moon and surrounding space |
| AGO | People who love to study ancient history get to explore events that happened a long time ___ |
| FORESHEET | Rope the man beginning to explore discovered in wooded area (9) |
| SPACE | Place for NASA to explore |
| SCARED | Small vehicle, beginning to explore Germany, rattled (6) |
| INSPACE | A new opportunity to explore the cosmos (2,5) |
