| RATTLING | So very good it's disconcert- ing? (8) |
| NGAIO | No good, then very good, over NZ tree |
| SINAI | Sin then very good on Biblical high! (5) |
| DOWNHILL | Easy competitive ski-ing? (8) |
| RIDDANCE | Good: it's a thing one is well shot of (8) |
| SPLENDID | Use up about a pound on birds now and then -- very impressive (8) |
| SLOPEOFF | Stride in so very loudly and leave so quietly |
| STOPOVER | Visit, so very short, interrupted by chief (8) |
| ANIMATED | Full of spirit, so very much alive (8) |
| PRECIOUS | Our epics anyhow are so very valuable (8) |
| ENORMOUS | Monroe is upset by America being so very large (8) |
| IFEELLOVE | Donna Summer hit with the lyric "It's so good, it's so good, it's so good" |
| BACKSOFF | Gives ground, with sponsor so very strong (5,3) |
| GLORIOUS | The first day of grouse-shooting is so very enjoyable |
| HANDSOFF | Worker so very loud? Keep away! (5,3) |
| OLDSPORT | Gatsby-esque endearing address: and, like cricket, so very English! (3,5) |
| THATCHER | Politician so very dear to the French? |
| TRINIDAD | "If you ever go down ...; They make you feel so very glad," The Andrews Sisters asserted in Rum and |
| IVYCROSS | West Cornwall is so very last year -- this year we're moving to a place near Shaftesbury in Dorset (3,5) |
| CHAIR | Has its occupant no stand ing? (5) |
