| SHORTAGE | Using up other gas led to deficiency (8) |
| PELLAGRA | A disease due to deficiency of niacin, a B-complex vitamin (8) |
| SHORTFALL | Reduced American season leads to deficiency (9) |
| LANTANAS | Plant, an aster, covers up other perennials (8) |
| REARREST | Bring up others the escapee fears (8) |
| POTSHERD | Ceramic fragment dug up, others smashed in fringes of pond (8) |
| AGITATOR | Which person stirs up others (8) |
| PANCAKES | Skillet-cooked crepes eaten on Shrove Tuesday in a custom symbolic of nothing more than indulging and using up one's butter, eggs, flour, milk and sugar before a fast (8) |
| SPENDING | Paying out money, using up or consuming |
| GHOUNDTERMINAL | Dogs' favorite place to pick up other dogs? |
| RAYOFSUNSHINE | One cheering up other people (3,2,8) |
| SERGEANTMAJOR | Officer sent gear around to pack up other ranks |
| BUBBLE | Hollow globule of air or other gas (6) |
| ARGON | Old vessel with nitrogen or other gas |
| KIPP | Generator for hydrogen sulphide or other gas (4) |
| VACUUM | A space that contains no air or other gas (6) |
| MODERNISM | Overturn wrong make over in 2000 using up-to-date styles |
| SURFEIT | Browsed on Web endlessly, using up-to-date technology and stuff |
| SPONGES | Diver/fisher employed in harvesting porifers; their boat; a decorator of pottery using porous puffs/pads; or, a scrounger, taken to soaking up others' generosity, money or resources (7) |
| STUPOR | Puts up other ranks in drunken state |
