| SENIORITIS | Twelfth-grader's "affliction" spelled only with the letters in "orients" |
| ANECDATA | Portmanteau for non-factual "statistics" spelled only with the letters in "decant" |
| ASSAM | Tea type spelled only with the letters in "mas" |
| TINTORETTO | 16th-century Italian painter whose name is spelled using only the letters in "orient" |
| CAF | Shortened term for school lunchroom spelled only with musical notes |
| RAINFOREST | Wooded area in Orient's far removed (10) |
| SCHMEAR | Bagel spread that can be spelled with the letters in cream cheese |
| AMORE | Word that can aptly be spelled with the letters in romance |
| ANTIALIAS | Computer graphics tool spelled only the letters in "in last": Hyph. |
| ENCLOSER | One placing something in with the letter in the envelope |
| EVADED | Word meaning "slipped by" that can be spelled only using the letters in "Dave" |
| EPEE | Fencing in which points are earned for touching the opponent only with the tip of the weapon |
| LARKSPUR | Plant in the Delphinium genus with spires of flowers bearing spiked or dolphin-shaped sepals and, according to myth, petals inscribed with the letters "AI AI", said to be the doleful cry of Apollo for |
| JUSTSO | Only with the intention that it's in perfect order (4,2) |
| OKOK | Repeated agreement spelled with the letters on either side of LMN in the alphabet: 2 wds. |
| BUSINESS | and 11dn, What the man who concerns himself only with the family firm is doing (7,3,3,8) |
| MINDINGHISOWN | and 11dn, What the man who concerns himself only with the family firm is doing (7,3,3,8) |
| SHORTTERM | Concerned only with the immediate future (5-4) |
| STILTON | Blue-vein cheese made only with the local milk from Derbyshire, Leicestershire or Nottinghamshire |
| FROMDAYTODAY | Concerned only with the present (4,3,2,3) |