| MIGRAINE | Shimmering in image around retina's start - of one perhaps |
| EXTRA | Special edition, 50 per cent of 1, perhaps (5) |
| SYMMETRIC | Proportioned as a mirror-image around an axis |
| MAGPIE | The corvid has a terrible image around Portugal's capital (6) |
| TRATTORIA | Show extravagant images around restaurant |
| FLOATER | Something buoyant in air/water; one of the muscae volitantes, or "fluttering flies", before one's retinas; a person who drifts from one thing to another; a blunder; or, an Australian meat pie, served |
| VENTRILOQUIZING | Start of one's interrogation in escape: maddening, putting words in another's mouth? |
| SWAT | End of a fly?... or the start of one? |
| COLON | Start of one canal: almost the end of another |
| SOHO | Note start of one area in London (4) |
| PENINSULA | Strip of land shimmering in Alpine sun |
| ONSET | It's the start of one's trouble and the end of merriment (5) |
| IFTHECOUNCIL | *Start of one dissenting councilman's actual response to the vote mentioned above |
| MIX | Make a medley, or the start of one, before nine (3) |
| PLAY | Work to mask start of one trick (4) |
| ORIFICE | Soldiers with poem at start of one church opening (7) |
| VIOLA | Shakespearean character going by, catching start of one line |
| BIOGRAPHY | Great harpy originally restricting start of one's life |
| UNPIN | Remove (a post) from the start of one's profile |
| NISSENHUT | Shelter shimmering in sunset gets hot inside (6,3) |
