| Not quite naked, lamely loses guts |  |  | 
          
            | Simply and sparsely (furnished) (6) |  |  | 
          
            | How the ecdysiast only just succeeds? (6) |  |  | 
          
            | As nudist appears? Only just! (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Hardly | The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 12 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | You can depend on following a Bachelor of Arts degree ... but only just (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Just slightly | USA Today | 09 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Just move by earl |  |  | 
          
            | A bachelor has to bank on being just (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Just by real ground |  |  | 
          
            | Only just have to depend on degree (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Ever so slightly | Universal | 01 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | By a hair | Commuter | 16 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Grass boosting energy? Hardly |  |  | 
          
            | Hardly a bachelor to depend on! (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Scarcely (6) ACROSS: 1 Swig 3 Spacious 9 Nosebag 10 Least 11 Zebra 12 Dinghy 14 Outset 15 Rib-eye 18 Invoke 20 Sit-in 22 Blind 23 Curried 25 Tolerant 26 Ogre. |  |  | 
          
            | Only just | Mirror Classic | 22 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Not quite in the altogether (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Hardly a source of barley? |  |  | 
          
            | Only just getting the degree you depend on (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Born unusually early? Not quite |  |  | 
          
            | Just having nothing to wear? |  |  | 
          
            | Just | Wall Street Journal | 31 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Only just makes sense (6,12) |  |  | 
          
            | Only just | The Telegraph Quick | 11 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Block off cathedral? Not quite | The Times Quick Cryptic | 26 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Save cathedral city — but only just | The Times Cryptic | 01 Aug 2023 | 
          
            | By a whisker | USA Today | 23 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Almost not | The Guardian Quick | 08 Jul 2022 | 
          
            | Just | Eugene Sheffer | 09 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | By a narrow margin | New York Times | 09 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Only just exclude place with a cathedral |  |  | 
          
            | Just impediment, see |  |  | 
          
            | By a very small margin | Irish Times Simplex | 22 May 2021 | 
          
            | Just book early for a change |  |  | 
          
            | Just about | Irish Times Simplex | 06 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Just bank on reversal of rating |  |  | 
          
            | Just a rotation in a crop |  |  | 
          
            | Only just | USA Today | 27 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Just how Lady Godiva rode | The Sun Two Speed | 05 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Hardly | The Sun Two Speed | 05 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Bank chases graduate with little to spare |  |  | 
          
            | Only just | Thomas Joseph | 17 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Scarcely | Family Time | 05 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Only just see following pub | The Telegraph Toughie | 30 May 2019 | 
          
            | Hardly a bank on the west of Beirut |  |  | 
          
            | By a whisker | Wall Street Journal | 07 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | By a whisker |  |  | 
          
            | By a very small margin | Family Time | 21 May 2017 | 
          
            | Only just | Newsday | 22 Jan 2017 | 
          
            | Just | Eugene Sheffer | 18 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Just | New York Times | 09 Jun 2016 | 
          
            | Just | The Telegraph Quick | 26 May 2016 | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | Just | USA Today | 12 Dec 2015 | 
          
            | Only just see after pub | The Telegraph Cryptic | 12 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | By a small margin | Universal | 06 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | Only just | The Telegraph Quick | 26 Apr 2015 | 
          
            | Degree by which bank appears just | The Telegraph Cryptic | 26 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | By a small margin |  |  | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | By a hair |  |  | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose |  |  | 
          
            | By the skin of one's teeth |  |  | 
          
            | Only just |  |  | 
          
            | Only just |  |  | 
          
            | With no room to spare |  |  | 
          
            | Only just |  |  | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | By a hair |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose, say |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose, say |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose, say |  |  | 
          
            | By the skin of one's teeth |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose |  |  | 
          
            | Only just |  |  | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | Just |  |  | 
          
            | Only just |  |  | 
          
            | Almost not |  |  | 
          
            | How Godiva rode! |  |  | 
          
            | By a nose |  |  | 
          
            | No more than |  |  | 
          
            | By a whisker |  |  | 
          
            | Just about |  |  | 
          
            | Hardly. |  |  | 
          
            | But just. |  |  | 
          
            | Only just. |  |  |