| MUDDLETHROUGH | Cope somehow (6,7) |
| EPOCHAL | Cope somehow with Harry coming of age |
| PLACEBO | Lab cope somehow, producing medicine |
| POLICE | Cope, somehow, having $1 in coppers (6) |
| POCHETTE | Cope somehow holding the fancy top of this envelope-shaped handbag (8) |
| PERNICIOUS | Fatal ruin - one copes, somehow |
| SCOPE | Copes somehow with extent in space |
| MANAGES | A chap gets old, but copes somehow |
| COFFEESHOPS | She copes somehow with old fellows entering cafes (6,5) |
| COLLAPSE | Copes, somehow, when all go to pieces in the smash-up (8) |
| MALADJUSTMENT | Inability to cope with daily life (13) |
| GOINGTOPIECES | Attending pastry chefs regularly failing to cope |
| SPACESTATIONS | Here remote scientists work, as satanists cope badly (5,8) |
| EUROPEANCOURT | Roughs harm unfortunate: I cope, providing protective authority (8,5,2,5,6) |
| COMPANIONABLE | Agreeable way to be with one to cope with man out on bail (13) |
| HOLIDAYSEASON | Away team has to cope with it over the Christmas period (7,6) |
| SOFTENTHEBLOW | Make it easier to cope with a difficult situation (6,3,4) |
| ACTORMANAGERS | Men of the theatre who cope right among the Thespians (5,8) |
| DYSFUNCTIONAL | Unable to cope with normal social relations (13) |
| ERMAS | "Aunt ___ Cope Book": 1979 bestseller |