| LEPT | Variant of "Leapt" |
| COVER | A variant of "clandestine, hidden, secret", thus a blanket, book jacket, canopy of trees, carpet of woodland flowers, layer of leaves, lid, philatelic envelope, sheet of stratus clouds, thicket for ga |
| LAMEBRAINPETE | A form of widow game, a variant of Cincinnati, found only in home games, in which each player is dea |
| EMIA | What is a variant of the suffix referring to the state of blood? (4) |
| GIGUE | Part of classical dance suite, a variant of 'jig' (5) |
| ULISE | Boy's name, variant of Ulysses, anagram of 'ileus' (5) |
| AFGHANI | Of an Asian people or language (variant of Parsi) (7) |
| NOMISM | On turning a variant of the Law Of Identity, another theory results (6) |
| SOUTHAFRICA | Country thought to be the source of a highly infectious variant of Covid-19 (5,6) |
| CREOLE | Variant of French spoken in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana (6) |
| JACKFROST | Personification of cold weather who is a variant of Old Man Winter (4,5) |
| GIN | An artifice or trick; a contrivance for snaring game; a horse mill; a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds; a variant of rummy; or, from "juniper", an ardent spirit flavoured with the berry-like c |
| ISPY | Name for a variant of hideand- seek originally, so called from the cry when one was found; or, a later guessing game that inspired a series of spotter guidebooks (1-3) |
| SOFTBALL | Junior variant of baseball (8) |
| CHEMINDEFER | Variant of baccarat (6,2,3) |
| ACEY | ___-Deucey (Variant of the game Backgammon) |
| OFTE | Norse variant of "often" |
| LINET | Welsh variant of 'Lynette' (5) |
| OCEANIC | Like the main variant of cocaine |
| BLUENOTE | Depressed variant of tone? |
