| VESTIGIAL | With just a trace of it left, gives tail a twist (9) |
| OWLET | Chick egg, by the look of it, left in rain (5) |
| STIRUP | Cause pedant to withdraw, giving tail a twist (4,2) |
| REPORT | The note left gives one the news (6) |
| SCINTILLA | Just a trace of lilac and tin's changed |
| VESTIGE | An alien gives out just a trace of it (7) |
| PEAS | John Lennon joke (see left): Give ___ a Chance! (4) |
| SALAMANCA | It left a chap cold coming to a Spanish city |
| LUSITANIA | It left USA and nearing Ireland all starts going wrong (9) |
| LITHUANIA | Somehow I tail a Hun to a more easterly country |
| RETALIATE | Come back into Zaire, tail a terrorist, and fight back (9) |
| FREELINES | Fishes with just a rod, reel, line and hook (*finer eels) (9) |
| INTERRUPT | Break in and demolish turret with just a pin (9) |
| SPARETIME | Is it left when one's watch is fast? (5,4) |
| SALTMARSH | It left damage in extremely treacherous hot coastal wetland |
| JUDASTREE | Plant with just a red end to foliage, shaken (5,4) |
| ATAGLANCE | With just a look towards silver pike |
| BITPLAYER | Actor with just a few lines |
| STENCIL | You may find a trace of it on paper (7) |
| PENCIL | From "tail", a painter's fine brush of hair, like a tuft at the end of such a scut; a stick of wood-encased blacklead/ graphite or chalk with which to delineate, doodle, hatch, scribble or write; or, |
