| LITTLEBYLITTLE | Taking a long time or a couple of minutes? |
| AGES | A very long time ... or a hint to the starts of the answers to the five starred clues |
| BULBUL | A songbird, or a couple of bovines, do we hear? |
| EDEN | Our leader once, or a couple of leaders from European country |
| ANAGRAM | Mixed up characters or a couple of farm animals? (7) |
| MINUS | Diminished by taking a couple of minutes out? (5) |
| MAIM | Disable a clever computer program within a couple of minutes (4) |
| MISALLIES | A couple of minutes before troop movements, chooses the wrong side (9) |
| GRAMME | Mass measurement finishing after a couple of minutes in Georgia (6) |
| PENALTYBOX | Place to wait for a couple of minutes, maybe |
| HAMMER | Drive a couple of minutes to visit that woman (6) |
| ILL | '___ be there in a couple of minutes' |
| TWOPAST | A couple of minutes after the hour |
| MIMED | Within a couple of minutes, one senior journo acted dumb |
| BAKE | Batch of biscuits, bread, cakes or pies prepared at one time; or, a general word for an oven-cooked mixture of ingredients in the form of a gratin, lasagne or a tian e.g. (4) |
| 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) |
| LAPSE | From "glide, slip", a word for a decline in standards; an error; a failure in attention or memory; a moral fall; the passage of time; or, a stumble (5) |
| VISTA | A distant view through or along an avenue / an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events) |
| CUTTLEFISH | Couple of minutes missing from much test film shot in sepia (10) |
| OLD | (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age. |
