| GEMINI | Two very similar, but a precious stone in one (6) |
| GEM | A precious stone in management |
| STAGED | Put on stone in one's declining years (6) |
| ALPACA | Camelid similar, but smaller than, a llama (6) |
| STRATA | Scheme to cut precious stone in multiple layers (6) |
| ANYWAY | So, it's similar, but longer? (6) |
| ISOMER | ____s are compounds with similar but different molecular forms, such as propyne and propadiene |
| BEHAVE | Two very common verbs cause no trouble |
| GARNET | A precious stone, generally red (6) |
| RHYMED | His products sound very similar in the end (6) |
| CERISE | Colour very similar to fuchsia (6) |
| EQUALS | Comes to matches featuring very similar opponents |
| ONAPAR | ___ with (very similar to) |
| RATTLING | Sounds like a stone in one's wheel cap is worrying (8) |
| IVORYTOWER | One or two, very unusually, found in academics' dwelling (5,5) |
| JEKYLLANDHYDE | A person with two very different sides to their personality (6,3,4) |
| AGATE | Semi-precious stone in a thing at entrance (5) |
| FALSEFRIENDS | Words in two languages that appear to be similar but which have different meanings (5,7) |
| OPENALLHOURS | One of two very successful sitcoms written by Roy Clarke and set in his native Yorkshire |
| GOGANDMAGOG | A good three gallons man's drunk - or two very large ones |
