| OVERLY | Too old, really, to ignore institute |
| EIGHT | Too young, really, to be a fat lady |
| PRIME | First to get really to fire (5) |
| CERE | It's nice, really to find a way to wax things (4) |
| DISHRAG | Cleaner gets really to like being around quiet artist |
| VERY | Extremely versatile, really, to outward appearances |
| YETI | Nevertheless one may be thought really to exist |
| RIFE | Is common with another fifty for this really to go off (4) |
| TRENDSETTER | Purveyor of new ideas initially tries really to kill me off? |
| SAMPLER | Test-piece of embroidery is ample, really, to some extent (7) |
| BLACKBURN | Not have long really to visit British town |
| SCAPEGOATS | They're not really to blame |
| SMOULDER | Series about fungus, not really to catch fire (8) |
| TWEEN | Word describing a child aged 10-12, too old to be a child but too young to be a teenager (5) |
| AGELIMIT | Bar to those too old or too young (3,5) |
| PASTIT | Too old, flier belonging to old man? |
| OVERLARGE | Too big and too old to hold hands (9) |
| VERBIAGE | Too old to go topless, half of bits tucked away - too much said? |
| OVERAGE | Old woman, say, would return but is too old (7) |
| COVERAGE | A hundred too old to get press write-up? (8) |
