| BLOWOVER | Book fan, stifling expression of discomfort, is to pass away (4,4) |
| PALADIN | Boy in great discomfort is a hero |
| FIC | Book fan online story, slangily |
| NERD | Stereotypical comic book fan |
| ANIMALFARM | Book's fan mail rough and ready |
| GEEKDOM | Realm for comic-book fans, say |
| FAROUCHE | Shy person in taxi stifling expression of pain |
| FLORENCE | Italian city criminal stifling expression of surprise |
| PROTOCOL | Treaty draft is to pass, after argument in favour |
| SANDIEGO | Squiffy dean is to pass the port |
| PERISH | Bit of copper is hard to pass away (6) |
| DIETRICH | Pass away with lots of money, clutching model actress Marlene |
| LAUGHAT | Deride Carmen stifling expression of disgust all in outskirts of Lowestoft (5,2) |
| ROADIE | Traveller to pass away after travel is cut short (6) |
| GREEDIEST | The most avaricious finally agree to pass away by the end of August |
| KERNE | Old soldier, a bit of a nut left to pass away |
| DIRGE | To pass away without heart surgery leads to a funeral song |
| AUDIENCE | Listeners pass away before noon in Australian church (8) |
| NEEDIEST | Most poor English pass away in home, perhaps (8) |
| WOEISME | That is, 'expression of discomfort', sent back by small business, is really a melodramatic lament |