| GROUNDZERO | Sufficient reason, love, for a completely new beginning (6,4) |
| GOROUND | Within reason, love to circulate |
| MAKINGOVER | Creating a completely new change to a person's style of dress (6,4) |
| REWRITE | Do a completely new draft |
| METAMORPHOSIS | Moor steamship that will be renovated and given a completely new look |
| CLOVE | Piece of garlic for a completely different flavour (5) |
| SPEAKEASY | Term for a completely legal bar that plays jazz music and hangs velvet curtains to block all sunlight, apparently |
| SMARTIES | Candy marketed as Rockets in Canada (where this name is used for a completely different candy) |
| FAIRGROUND | Just sufficient reason for a place of diversion (10) |
| BACKGROUND | Lend support, with sufficient reason to see the set at some stage (10) |
| LEADASTRAY | Put on a confusing or maybe even a completely wrong path |
| ATATANGENT | Delegate touring vale, heading north in a completely different direction (2,1,7) |
| RESUMPTION | Importunes sadly for a new beginning (10) |
| MAISONETTE | Lover includes one sonnet - missing new beginning it's a little flat (10) |
| FRESHSTART | New beginning, as spelled by the new beginnings in this puzzle's theme answers |
| CLEANSLATE | New beginning with no hard feelings (2 wds.) |
| AGROUND | A sufficient reason for being stranded |
| GROUNDS | Sufficient reason for them to be left in a coffee pot (7) |
| BREADTH | Dimension that's completely new for the bard (7) |
| MINNESOTA | Broken nose requires completely new bandaging, a state |
