| HYSTERECTOMY | Surgery distressing Yankee mothers etc - the end of fertility (12) |
| SINGLEPARENT | Unmarried mother etc. (6,6) |
| OUTSTRETCHED | Fashion etc, the Tudors extended (12) |
| UNDERCLOTHES | Knickers etc the scoundrel waved about (12) |
| EXPOSURE | Word for a lack of shelter from the weather; the harmful effects of extreme cold; aspect, with regard to climate, influence, sunlight etc; the revelation of a secret; or, publicity (8) |
| CARVING | The act or art of sculpture in ivory, stone, wood etc; the dendroglyph, figure or form created; the process of cutting up roasted meat at a table; or, a technique of turning in skiing (7) |
| FLIGHT | A journey through the air; a flock or body of airborne arrows, birds, insects etc; the swift passage of time; or, a wandering of imagination or fancy (6) |
| BALL | A spherical mass of crystal, leather, minced beef, snow, wool, yarn etc; the delivery of the "cherry" in cricket; a plant's compact mass of roots with its surrounding soil; or, a formal assembly for d |
| EFFECT | The process whereby the Earth heats up in response to a blanketing of atmospheric cloud, dust, carbon dioxide etc; the Greenhouse ... |
| WARP | From "cast, throw", a reckoning of four cod, herrings, oysters etc; the threads crossed by a loom's weft or woof; a distortion in the shape of something; or, a bias or mental twist (4) |
| CRUNCH | A hard bite or chomp of an apple, biscuit, crisp etc; the loud sound made; a crisis; a credit squeeze; a sit-up; or, the grind of gravel underfoot (6) |
| CAST | A fling, throw or sending forth of an aspersion, die, fishing-line, horseshoe, spell etc; the dramatis personae of a play; or, a plaster-of-Paris bandage (4) |
| ACETONE | Colourless volatile organic solvent used in nail polish removers, paint thinners etc; the simplest of the ketones (7) |
| PAGE | One side of a leaf of a book, diary, newspaper etc; the printed/written matter it bears; one such sheet as a unit; or, a chapter, episode, event or whatever that may be envisaged as material to fill s |
| BOARDGAMES | Monopoly, etc the result of company directors' antics (5,5) |
| TENTACLES | Bits of squid etc the French caught in net cast indiscriminately (9) |
| FIGURESOFSPEECH | Cliche, irony, etc, the basis for the Budget address? (7,2,6) |
| FORESTALL | Anticipate growth of planes etc, the entire fleet? |
| ISIS | The name given to the River Thames flowing through Oxford is the same as the Egyptian goddess of fertility |
| MAIN | Principal pipe distributing water, gas etc; the high sea; or, a number from 5 to 9 in the game hazard (4) |
