| HELDUP | Supported yet not allowed to proceed |
| TACKY | Not dry yet not very tasteful (5) |
| INFUN | Not out for pleasure, yet not serious (2,3) |
| TWENTYONE | Somehow not new, yet not of a significant age |
| INAWAY | At home, yet not at home, to some extent (2,1,3) |
| SCRAPPED | Discarded yet not finished, maybe Johnny Vegas at last returns to host nonsense (8) |
| OFFFORM | Holding off for more, yet not up to par (3,4) |
| BUTTON | One can fasten a garment yet not in reflection (6) |
| VIPER | A bigwig, royal, yet not a nice type (5) |
| BUSHY | Thick, yet not completely backward |
| TILL | Cash drawer as yet not opened |
| GRAVELY | Performing Ravel, yet not entirely seriously |
| WELLTHOUGHTOF | Highly regarded source, yet not altogether a gentleman |
| THOROUGH | Detailed, yet not fully worked out |
| SILL | Mass of rock, yet not tons |
| RARE | Especially good yet not at all well done |
| INREALITY | Foreign airline, yet not European, actually |
| REMEMBERED | Party man's broken reed, yet not overlooked |
| STILL | Yet; not moving |
| NOWHERE | Currently in this place yet not in any place! (7) |