| EUGENICS | Study of methods of 'improving' the human race - eg, by selective breeding (8) |
| NOBBLE | To tamper with a horse or greyhound to prevent it from winning a race, e.g. by giving it a drug (6) |
| SEO | Method of improving online traffic, briefly |
| SPEECHTHERAPY | A method of improving poor orators! (6,7) |
| CULTIVAR | Plant variety that's been produced by selective breeding (8) |
| BIRDSEYE | Clarence ---, American inventor of methods of fast-freezing foods (8) |
| BACKDOOR | The sort of methods that will offer no opening to the men at the front! (8) |
| EDIFYING | One defying a way of improving the mind (8) |
| STUDFARM | Site for the selective breeding of livestock (4,4) |
| SOCRATIC | Kind of method used in "The Paper Chase" |
| CONTESTS | Events like boat races, eg (8) |
| ESCAPOLOGY | The study or use of methods of freeing oneself from any sort of constraint or confinement (10) |
| EUGENIC | Designed to improve a race by selective breeding |
| CULTIVARS | Plant varieties produced by selective breeding (9) |
| REVAMP | An act of improving the appearance, form or structure of something (6) |
| DOITYOURSELF | One way of improving the house! (2-2-8) |
| BONSAI | The art of growing dwarfed ornamental varieties of trees by selective pruning (6) |
| BYTRIALANDERROR | A way of problem solving by using a variety of methods (2,5,3,5) |
| CULL | To reduce the population of a herd or flock by selective slaughter (4) |
| RANGTHECHANGES | Used a variety of methods, as one knowing the ropes? |
