| TIEABOW | The first Bowie compilation containing a finishing touch for the present (3,1,3) |
| HAS | Nothing ___ Changed, Bowie compilation album (3) |
| CHERRY | A native British fruit whose figurative placement on the top of a cake alludes to a finishing touch to an already excellent situation (6) |
| FORGOODMEASURE | Our fearsome God tortured as a finishing touch (3,4,7) |
| TOPPEDOFF | Added a finishing touch to |
| TIP | Word, from rogues' cant for a topping off or finishing touch, for a gratuity, pourboire or service reward that winds up a meal or kindly polishes off a good supper; a clue, hint or "wink"; an apex; or |
| CONTACT | Characters in cot can't get in touch for a change (7) |
| VARNISH | A finishing glossiness |
| CAPITAL | Topping almost put the finishing touch on the whole thing? (7) |
| INCENSE | Popular touch, for example, said to inflame anger (7) |
| SENSORY | Relating to sight or touch, for example (7) |
| PAYMENT | Unknown blokes coming in to touch for money? |
| HITSEND | Put the finishing touch on an e-mail? |
| EDIBLES | Special beedis with finishing touch of herbal. They are fit for consumption (7) |
| SNAILPOLISH | Finishing touch for a gastropod? |
| ALUMINUMWHEELS | Finishing touch for your '63 Chevy hot rod |
| ABUSES | Mars made from top grade British milk finishing touch for elevenses (6) |
| PLACINGABERET | Finishing touch for foppish painters? |
| TOPPING | Culinary finishing touch that is excellent (7) |
| TAPE | A cassette; a finishing line; a strip of cellulose, cotton, linen etc for binding or sticking; or, a long flexible ruler for dressmaking/tailoring (4) |
