| IMPROVEMENTS | Show clearly, chaps in swirling mist are making better progress |
| STARES | Goggles in the mist are steamed up |
| MIDWEST | Indiana's here, where dew and mist are mingled (7) |
| ISTHMUSES | Peak in Himalayas shrouded in swirling mist occupies narrow strips of land (9) |
| TRUISM | They say you are heading west in swirling mist, and that's obvious |
| MERITS | Virtues shown by monarch in swirling mist |
| TSUNAMI | Girl in swirling mist caused by tidal wave (7) |
| TSUNAMIS | An American upended in swirling mist by large destructive sea waves (8) |
| CURING | Making better by preserving in salt (6) |
| EVINCE | Show clearly what's incorporated in woman (6) |
| IMMODEST | Revealing way to get lost in the swirling mist (8) |
| CURLING | Line breaks making better game (7) |
| LOSEHEART | Give up cryptic instructions for making better beer |
| AMELIORATING | Making better meal at sea with one old sailor (12) |
| AMELIORATION | Making better sermon, perhaps, after declaration by priest? |
| LAYBARE | Show clearly a bleary mixture (3,4) |
| EVINCES | Shows clearly how most evidences are needed (7) |
| COCKFIGHT | Caught in swirling thick fog, in which feathers will fly |
| OTHELLO | In 1.1, in order to stir up trouble, Iago tells the Signior of the household the following: "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you, your daughter, and the Moor, are making the beast with two backs." W |
| IMPROVEMENT | Act of making better |