| INELASTIC | Corrupt client is a stiff (9) |
| INTELLECT | Someone smart, allowed to rise, taken in by corrupt client (9) |
| DONDRAPER | "The day you sign a client is the day you start losing them" speaker* |
| VASSAL | Client is against a girl returning |
| TROUSERS | Client is in character returning slacks (8) |
| PATIENT | Physician's client is long suffering (7) |
| INTHECLEAR | Excitedly hear client is this? (2,3,5) |
| BALDERDASH | What client is leaving barber -jumble! (10) |
| INHOUSE | Like counsel whose client is the company they work for |
| PATENT | Doctor's client is losing heart, it's obvious (6) |
| CRINOLINE | Originally a stiff fabric of horsehair and linen, a Victorian fashion accessory in the form of a cage-like petticoat (9) |
| COINTREAU | A neurotic ordered a stiff drink (9) |
| THEMORGUE | Meet rough ground in a stiff location (3,6) |
| RUDDYDUCK | North American bird with a stiff upright tail (5,4) |
| DOUBLEONE | A stiff drink or two (6,3) |
| PUNCHCARD | A stiff piece of paper once used for inputting computer data (5-4) |
| POKER | Thought to be related to the German for "brag", the name of a card game of bluff and skill; a bugbear; a mace-bearer; a salamander for stirring a fire; or, a stiff person (5) |
| STOCK | Word for a trunk or main stem; a wooden part of a gun; a stiff neckcloth or white cravat; pedigree; or, broth (5) |
| HOMBURG | A man's soft felt hat with a dented crown and a stiff upturned brim, as worn by Tony Hancock |
| SHERRY | Make a mistake in a throw-in, so had a stiff drink (6) |
