| CLAMPDOWN | Shellfish with feathers bringing in start of pesticide restriction |
| COMMERCE | Lady making introductions bringing in start of carriage trade (8) |
| FORTIETHS | Small parts in start of Revenge of the Sith edited, removing Hayden's first appearance (9) |
| ALLEGORIC | Lines in start of Act I loaded mainly with symbolic meaning |
| THUNDERED | In start of twentieth century, economy initially boomed (9) |
| CHECKMATE | Defeat in start of contest? Hell, team's terrible (9) |
| TRACKSUIT | Stretches in starts of triathlon usually in this? (9) |
| MBUJIMAYI | Congolese city's openings for merchant banking upped jobs in start of fifth month? (9) |
| SETPIECES | Regulate misuse of pesticide - it'd cut corners etc (3,6) |
| OYSTERBED | An aquacultural metropolis forming a three-dimensional nacreous coastal haven for the filter-feeding shellfish with pearls or proverbial worlds within bivalve shucks (6-3) |
| ERRONEOUS | Queen single in start cut being faulty (9) |
| MICHAELCORLEONE | Villain's failure of cochlear implants in start of long journey? (7,8) |
| HESITATE | Pause with suspicious atheist taking in start of evensong (8) |
| BLIP | Glitch in start of lesson in Book One (Piano) (4) |
| SEMPRE | Mezzo-piano in start of sonata before? It's always in the score (6) |
| BRAKESHOES | Skids in start of race in base, he's ok otherwise (5,5) |
| SWANIN | Casually participate in start of show, endlessly decreasing in size (4,2) |
| SYSTEMIC | Type of pesticide that is taken in by a plant (8) |
| TRAIL | Last people out, taking in start of rural track (5) |
| BASES | Supports singer taking in start of Eurovision (5) |
