| BETTERMENT | To stake time on mending net is all to the good (10) |
| ENTAILS | Involves mending net before setting sail (7) |
| STRINGENT | Binding twine and mending net (9) |
| SETONESHANDTO | Start work on mending stetson on head (3,4,4,2) |
| RACIALTOLERANCE | A clear article on mending social attitude (6,9) |
| BONNET | Bent on mending headgear (6) |
| ABSENT | Away somewhere, like a sailor mending nets (6) |
| JUSTASWELL | Fair, also, which is to the good (4,2,4) |
| THERESMORE | "I haven't even gotten to the good part" |
| COVENANTER | Old Presbyterian binding witches to stake with a bit of rope |
| BETTHEFARM | In North American informal usage, to stake everything |
| ENTANGLING | Getting snarled up -- as net is here, before fishing (10) |
| MEATMARKET | Place to stake out some steaks |
| PERSISTENT | Constant factor in drift nets is reptiles rolling around (10) |
| ASTRINGENT | A twine woven net is constricting |
| NASAL | The return of the primulas' annual display is all to do with the nose (5) |
| ROYAL | Solar energy is nothing to do with the Greens, it is all to do with Queens (5) |
| RANGE | Managed to get nearly all to the mountains (5) |
| GENETICS | Sting gets involved with the EEC. It is all to do with heredity (8) |
| ELECTORAL | Claret, Leo, is all to do with the vote (9) |
