| HOTPOTATO | Damaged top hat too may be something likely to be dropped (3,6) |
| FAITH | Belief in those running football damaged top to bottom |
| STRUT | Rust damaged top of this rod (5) |
| PESTICIDE | Spice diet may be something used to get rid of crop destroyers (9) |
| STATEROOM | Master too may have a private cabin at sea (9) |
| CONDITION | A prerequisite to study elocution about to be dropped |
| EPITOMISE | Abstract poem, about to be dropped, is put in book |
| EMPOWERED | Authorised captive queen to be dropped into English sea (9) |
| CASTASIDE | Players joined a team only to be dropped (4,5) |
| NUTMEGGED | Embarrassingly beaten at football, head girl agreed to be dropped every so often |
| TONOAVAIL | Futile for Tim to be dropped from motivational work (2,2,5) |
| LITTERBUG | Refuse to be dropped by one |
| PIGEONS | Set the cat amongst the ____ , expression meaning 'to do something likely to cause trouble' (7) |
| WATERLOO | ... this, too, may be the end of the 7 (8) |
| SPEECH | Written word, too, may be classified as part of it (6) |
| TOPHOLE | Help too, may be A-1! (3,4) |
| TOMATO | Mat, too, may be put out for a love-apple (6) |
| SEEDCORN | Stupidly censored something likely to yield profit later |
| PETARD | Something likely to explode? Depart in a frenzy |
| PIPE | Something likely to freeze in an unheated house during frigid weather |
