| SERAPE | Understand about a topless wrap or riding-blanket (6) |
| PAPYRUS | Topless, wrap up Ys in thick paper? (7) |
| DILATING | What a pupil may be doing to understand about a classical language (8) |
| REALISE | Understand about a lie containing hint of sincerity (7) |
| TOURER | A bike, caravan, open car, phaeton etc, designed for peregrination; or, the journeyer, traveller or wayfarer driving or riding one such vehicle (6) |
| ZEPHYR | A breeze, fine gingham, rower's jersey, light worsted yarn, shawl, silk wrap or thin vest, all as ethereal, gentle, soft or warm as the wind of the west (6) |
| RAFFIA | Grass-like natural material used for decorative gift wrap or to make hats, mats or baskets (6) |
| VEGGIE | Wrap or sticks preceder |
| EGRESS | Exit, eg with a topless dress (6) |
| SEANCE | A meeting with those departed from a topless dance by an early seamstress |
| EUREKA | Yell from a topless Greek, excited, grasping essence of fluid (6) |
| STEADY | Be firm when you set out to meet a topless lady (6) |
| BEDAUB | Smear sleeping place - "a topless pub" (6) |
| ELOPER | One who flees to marry a topless developer |
| NIECES | Female relatives use a topless beanie incessantly |
| STRATA | A topless pie’s rising layers |
| SERENE | Being calm, understand about incomplete payment (6) |
| GANNET | Understand about girl being big eater (6) |
| DINING | Understand about inn being exceptional for eating (6) |
| SECEDE | Understand about the month having turned, so withdraw (6) |
