| ALLBUT | Very nearly a fish if I 'ad replaced plate (3,3) |
| TRICKLING | To con a fish if it's only just running (9) |
| GNAWED | Bit Gwen 'ad replaced (6) |
| EARLYDAY | 8 ad replaced by a Poet Laureate on parliamentary business (5,3,6) |
| OOPSADAISY | In retirement some days I 'ad a spoonful -- it's said to help after a fall (4-1-5) |
| PRESTIDIGITATOR | One using a blind pig's trotter (I 'ad one fricasseed) (15) |
| YIELD | Why I 'ad to return (5) |
| ELSALVADOR | All-over ads replaced in the country (2,8) |
| BRAHMA | Composer very nearly a god |
| CODIFY | Catalogue fish if you initially want to (6) |
| OPTFOR | Choose raw fish if various hot soups contain head of rocket in the middle (3,3,5) |
| CORNEA | A bit chic or nearly a bit of a looker! |
| ALMOST | Nearly a man: very much so (6) |
| OVERARM | How to bowl very nearly a rare maiden following duck (7) |
| VERTEBRATE | Very nearly a better wild animal with backbone (10) |
| HASTEN | Rush owns nearly a dozen (6) |
| TRIPLE | Hit that's nearly a homer |
| SOPHIA | Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520 |
| ISLAND | Over nearly a century, cattle, goats, cats, deer, sheep, pigs, dogs, possums, stoats and rats were eradicated from which North Island nature reserve? (6,6) |
| KAPITI | Over nearly a century, cattle, goats, cats, deer, sheep, pigs, dogs, possums, stoats and rats were eradicated from which North Island nature reserve? (6,6) |
