| RABBITING | Teacher smart, doing away with initial chattering (9) |
| SYMMETRIC | Regular, say, doing away with a crim, met with foul play (9) |
| SCRAPPING | Doing away with fighting (9) |
| ABOLITION | Action of doing away with something |
| OBVIATING | Doing away with boating - swimming around six |
| ACCIDENTS | Can't side with initial certainty to disclose how they happen (9) |
| PERTUSSIS | Poorly sister up with initial symptoms of whooping cough (9) |
| STUTTERER | Speaker with initial difficulties (9) |
| AGAMEMNON | King soon winning chess, say, with initial moves (9) |
| TESTAMENT | Trial gets word of approval with initial appearance of this legal document (9) |
| RETICULAR | Like net that could get curlier with initial couple of tangles |
| SAINTPAUL | Depict his original name with initial switches for this apostle |
| LIEINWAIT | We, with initial trouble, stay still and hidden (3,2,4) |
| ONDEPOSIT | Working with initial payment, lodged in account (2,7) |
| RHAPSODIC | Like some music that, with initial repetitions, may be adapted for harpsichord |
| RELIEFMAP | It shows mountains so help mother with initial preparations (6,3) |
| AGGRESS | Attack with a horse, doing away with first of assembled reporters |
| FINISHINGSCHOOL | Place for learning social graces doing away with group of fish (9,6) |
| ERASING | Doing away with a signer |
| REGAN | Former president doing away with a king's daughter (5) |
