| WELLKEPT | Water source preserved in good order (4-4) |
| GOLDCARD | Grand old car preserved in the end with special plastic (4,4) |
| EBORACUM | Roman name for York, preserved in abbreviated form in the official name of the city's Archbishop (8) |
| FOOTWEAR | Maybe Oxford English preserved in campaign led by former Labour leader (8) |
| STARDUST | Hoagy Carmichael song preserved in the National Recording Registry |
| BEETROOT | Vegetable often preserved in vinegar |
| STATUTES | Edicts from Troy preserved in stone monuments (8) |
| TAMARIND | Seed pod pulp eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved in curries and chutneys (8) |
| AIRSPRAY | Put out sides of scallop and flat fish that's preserved in a type of can (3,5) |
| RESIGNED | Bug's tail preserved in amber maybe exhumed after excavation's stood down (8) |
| GINGER | Spice derived from the rhizome of a plant related to turmeric, used powdered in cakes and biscuits, fresh in curries and stir-fries or preserved in syrup (6) |
| PEEL | Lemon and orange rind preserved in sugar as an ingredient for Christmas cakes/puddings, stollen or festive sweetmeat dipped in chocolate (4) |
| JAR | Research specimens are often preserved in formaldehyde in this storage vessel |
| NEILARMSTRONG | Astronaut left Mars ingeniously preserved in liquid nitrogen (4,9) |
| SKIPPERED | Had leading role in Society preserved, in a way |
| GLACE | Preserved in sugar resulting in a glossy surface |
| PICKLE | Predicament in getting vegetables preserved in vinegar (6) |
| STEM | _ _ _ _ ginger, choice pieces of root crystallised and preserved in syrup (4) |
| BRINED | Preserved in salty water (6) |
| KEPT | Preserved in Lake Ptolemy (4) |
