| ATKINSDIET | Starter of tree tufts rejected; detox's not half restricting Everyman in regime (6,4) |
| MOTIVATION | Drive time breaking Everyman in France; holiday about to be cancelled (10) |
| CLOSECOUPS | Near misses in regime changes? |
| TEPID | Apathetic leader of party in regime overthrown |
| PERSIA | Reconstituted spare parts for Everyman in the old country (6) |
| TAPEMEASURE | Everyman in area set up for renovation with toolbox item (4,7) |
| STOIC | Bed's seen with Everyman in: rising; uncomplaining (5) |
| WELFARESTATE | Retiring age soared, say, in regime such as ours? (7,5) |
| REGICIDE | Detectives replacing male in regime, doing away with top man (8) |
| EDIT | Raised energy in regime change (4) |
| GENERALISSIMO | Supreme commander with military and also in regimes, unfortunately |
| ARCTICHAIR | Muskox tufts scattered across the tundra? |
| TASSELS | Ornamental tufts of threads made in the art of passementerie; or, male maize flowers resembling these (7) |
| BIRDSNEST | Type of tropical epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree crotches |
| CRESTS | Manes of horses; plumes or tufts of birds or helmets; identifying rings on arrows; or, tops of hills or waves (6) |
| WISPS | Word for flocks of snipe; friars' lanterns; petite girls/slight boys; twists of hay or straw; small brooms; strands or streaks of hair or smoke; or, tufts (5) |
| COMAE | Botany: tufts of hairs attached to the seed coats of some seeds (5) |
| STENOTUS | Genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing in dense tufts. |
| QUIFFS | Who in Paris, France, starts to favour slick tufts of hair? (6) |
| FLINTLOCK | Old piece of fluff among fine tufts of wool |
