| FIRSTOFALL | To start with, it's for demolition in the autumn (5,2,3) |
| CRASS | To start with it's crude, rude and so, so insensitive (5) |
| SEMAPHORE | Spare home for demolition in army communication? (9) |
| MINNESOTA | Man on site for demolition in U.S. state (9) |
| FOREST | Fine store for demolition in wooded area (6) |
| ALBUM | Record presentation may start with its leaves looking blank (5) |
| LEAFBLOWER | Gardener's tool for cleaning in the autumn (4,6) |
| SANDCASTLE | Strand building shortly due for demolition? (10) |
| DOGWOOD | Shrub in the genus Cornus with the cultivar "midwinter fire" grown for its brilliant, flame-red-coloured stems in the autumn and following months (7) |
| DURBAN | Start of demolition in built-up area that is on the Indian Ocean |
| DOGROSE | With pink flowers signalling an approaching summer, a wild climber found intertwined with brambles in hedgerows and woodland edges or with ripening fruit in the autumn (3,4) |
| LEAF | Admired in the pastime of "peeping", any one of the organs of photosynthesis of deciduous trees and other plants, turning from green to yellow and red in the autumn (4) |
| PITFALLS | The dangers of bringing up advice for gamblers going to New York in the autumn and heading for Saratoga (8) |
| VERMONT | State whose capital starts with its last four letters |
| HITS | He starts with its bestsellers (4) |
| END | Each new day starts with its conclusion (3) |
| STOWE | - House; ducal palace set within 750 acres of parkland in Buckinghamshire that was saved from demolition in 1922 and since used as a school (5) |
| IMPLOSION | Controlled demolition in which a structure collapses on itself, building ... |
| BRAINTREE | Entire bar requiring demolition in Essex town (9) |
| FALLDOWN | What Humpty Dumpty might do in the autumn in Boston and in the North of Ireland (4,4) |
