| CONVEY | Timid to admit, initially, not very easy to communicate (6) |
| BRIGHT | Intelligent but not very easy on the eye? (6) |
| SERENENESS | Compose nerves, not very easy initially, and head for tranquillity (10) |
| UNINVITED | Intruder is initially not very interested in football team |
| NOODLES | Initially not very much Chinese food |
| NERVY | Initially not very dizzy on edge (5) |
| STURGEON | Doctor admits initially taught one of those from school (8) |
| THRUM | Ex-president almost admits initially hearing drone (5) |
| DIVULGE | Blow the gaff on seedy joint that admits initially unsavoury language (7) |
| SHANDY | Timid to swallow what's more than a drink (6) |
| TRIFLE | Layered pudding of cream, custard, jelly and sponge cake whose name, meaning "thing of little significance", is apt, for it is of little consequence to make and very easy to eat (6) |
| DODDLE | (Scottish) Something that is very easy to do (6) |
| SITTER | It's very easy to be a model (6) |
| SIMPLE | Very easy to do (6) |
| BREEZE | Something very easy to do (colloq.) |
| FACILE | Very easy to put a dial one left inside |
| APIECE | Something very easy to do (1,5,2,4) |
| OFCAKE | Something very easy to do (1,5,2,4) |
| FADING | Losing light as football authorities admit first dummy initially not great (6) |
| KRAKOW | City's keeper initially not prepared to accept defeat (6) |
