| ARBUTUS | Unpopular, but usually accommodating growth |
| PIGOUT | Pork unpopular, but stuff oneself (3,3) |
| PITIFUL | I uplift, perhaps, but usually a sad case (7) |
| UTOPIANS | Idealistic, but usually impractical, social reformers (8) |
| CELLS | Only small rooms, but usually with electricity (5) |
| BUG | Starts but usually gets trouble in computer |
| VOTE | Yes or No but usually cross |
| UTOPIAN | Idealistic but usually impractical (7) |
| BABES | ___ in the woods : innocent, but usually troubled persons ? (5) |
| POLYPS | Small, abnormal but usually benign growths |
| CONCERTMASTER | A leader, but usually with strings attached (13) |
| GOLDFISHBOWL | Holds big fowl maybe but usually something smaller (8,4) |
| BREVET | A warrant authorising a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but usually without receiving the pay of that higher rank |
| TOFFEE | Confection similar to fudge, caramel and butterscotch but usually heated until brittle (6) |
| RULE | Govern, but usually with more than one of them (4) |
| BUGLE | A brass musical instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves (5) |
| EGRET | Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage |
| CHEWINGGUM | Something chewed but usually not swallowed (7,3) |
| FLOORS | 12 and 14, but usually not 13 |
| LEVELCROSSING | But usually it is not even going to the other side of the tracks (5,8) |
