| INDWELT | Twin led the way, having existed inside (7) |
| EXPLODE | The Expo led the way it should go off (7) |
| ELAPSED | Time passed silently when the apes led the way (7) |
| MOTTLED | Little Thomas returned and led the way to tea - hence the blotchy appearance (7) |
| MEDLARS | Mars led the way in producing fruit (7) |
| DEPLETE | Seen to reduce the stock and Pete led the way |
| HAMMERS | It harms me in a way having to provide the tools (7) |
| ANCIENT | Law: having existed since before the time of legal memory (7) |
| NOSTRUM | No way having strange medicine (7) |
| LATRINE | Gentlemen's way, having three to be entertained (7) |
| AGELONG | Having existed many years (7) |
| MAMMOTH | Large, hairy-coated creature which became extinct about 4000 years ago, having existed for around six million years (7) |
| OLDBILL | Having existed for many years, William is soldier with drooping moustache (3,4) |
| VANGUARDS | They lead the way, having switched parts in guard's van (9) |
| ABSCONDED | Get out of the way, having escaped from legal action (9) |
| INDUCEMENTS | I name Mussolini with chaps over the way having incentives (11) |
| AGUE | A guest loses the way having shivering fit (4) |
| MUDDLETHROUGH | Somehow get by, though drum led the way to it (6,7) |
| IDLERS | Sir led the way and the lazy ones followed (6) |
| DECKLEEDGED | Bordering on coarse to have ceded the keg led the way (6,5) |
