| OCCLUDE | Shut in what the dentist does to line the teeth up (7) |
| DENTALTREATMENT | What the dentist does (6,9) |
| ORAL | Kind of examination, of the type that dentist does (4) |
| CAPANDGOTOTOWN | What a freewheeling dentist does after putting on a crown? |
| AMALGAM | What the dentist inserted a millimetre contains seaweed (7) |
| EPITAPH | Sanctimonious touch in what's the final comment |
| EXTRACT | What the dentist will do as a last resort (ouch!) if a tooth can't be saved |
| EQUATOR | Associated with the sailors' initiation rite and ceremony known as crossing the line, the imaginary band in the region where sunsets and sunrises occur fastest on Earth (7) |
| ESOBESO | 1962 hit with the line "the samba's the quickest way to make amor" |
| WAINSCOT | What do we call the oak that serves to line the walls of a room (8) |
| INTIMAE | They line the arteries in time: fat essentially providing blockage (7) |
| EIDERS | Large ducks with fine soft downs that the females use to line the nests (6) |
| OCANADA | Whence the line "The True North strong and free" |
| TROLLED | Having stepped over line, the French posted offensive comment (7) |
| TOFRONT | Returned to firing line the wrong way. (4,2,5) (See 13A) |
| JACARANDA | Tree with lilac flowers and fern-like leaves, they are often planted alongside roads in Mallorca to line the streets with colour (9) |
| PLATINUM | Best, use a cheap metal to line the expensive metal (8) |
| LATTICE | "Line the loft" (Energy Grid) (7) |
| ROEDEER | Animals forming line, the opposite of 17, say (3,4) |
| REDRAWS | Changes the lines, ... the boundaries |