| ABSEILED | Cook retrospectively admitting problem with stock that's dropped down face, perhaps? (8) |
| CHITCHAT | Kitty admitting problem in light conversation (8) |
| LAIDLOW | Struck down face up and down (4,3) |
| FELLINI | Italian with camera dropped down in midair (7) |
| COSMETICSURGERY | Lose some face perhaps with superficial work in theatre (8,7) |
| POKER | Card game played with a straight face perhaps |
| POUT | Sulky selfie face perhaps (rhymes with bout) |
| FELL | Cut down, or dropped down |
| SUPINE | Leg held by girl lying down, face up (6) |
| BADDAY | Reason to flop down face-first on the couch when you get home, maybe |
| LAIDASIDE | Put down face up, like a fish (4,5) |
| SINKDIVERS | Ones going after wedding rings dropped down the drain? |
| THEVERYIDEA | In the course of criminal activity, I dropped down dead, almost - that's absurd! |
| ALLEGES | Claims all edges have dropped down (7) |
| RAPPELLED | Dropped down a cliff - having committed a crime, hide inside (9) |
| PLINKO | "The Price Is Right" game in which chips are dropped down a pegboard |
| RHINO | Beast oddly dropped down his horn when retreating (5) |
| ITEM | Thing small child's dropped down top (4) |
| SAGGED | Dropped down, holding breakfast favourite back (6) |
| FECUND | Point to a hundred in stock that's prolific |
