| BETTERHALF | Bather who left out the spouse! (6,4) |
| SEAURCHIN | Has cure in preparation - for the bather who steps on it? (3-6) |
| UNWED | Nothing outstanding, no ring, no spouse! (5) |
| FLAUNTED | A member of the family, who's left out, showed off (8) |
| QUEENVICTORIA | Whose diaries were transcribed by her daughter, who left out passages she deemed not suitable for posterity, then burned the originals? (5,8) |
| THEGODWIFE | Legal drama about the spouse of a disgraced politician ... who happens to be a deity? |
| MORGANATIC | Of a marriage where the spouse of lower rank cannot inherit a title (10) |
| PAYER | One of those in the cast left out - the one sorting out Bill (5) |
| TITHE | In the past, it left out the heading (5) |
| LAMPS | Left out the maps and the lights (5) |
| INTENSE | I left out the nineties, confused in the extreme (7) |
| THREADBARE | Worn out, you read, the bather collapsed outside |
| CONSORT | The spouse put the unruly son right into bed (7) |
| ALEXANDRA | The last Empress of Russia as the spouse of Nicholas II (9) |
| OUTLAWS | Fugitives? The opposite to the spouse's family, we hope! |
| STEPSON | The spouse's boy must take the chicken from Stephenson (7) |
| DUNCE | Dead relative left out, the fool (5) |
| CHIDE | Kid left out the last rebuke! (5) |
| TITLE | A little confused, left out the name (5) |
| CLAM | Maintain I left out the shellfish (4) |
