| LEGATEE | Diplomat inattentive at the end: he's left something (7) |
| ASLEEP | Inattentive "at the switch," in a saying |
| SNIVEL | Before I have left at the end, he's certain to cry |
| HEATEDUP | Put head out, at the end. He was getting warmer (6,2) |
| RETIREE | Go to bed by the end - he's no longer working |
| TOLKIEN | To make up tale about Khuzdul, for starters - and Sauron, in the end - he did! (7) |
| ESCAPER | In the East End, he's bound to find the one that got away (7) |
| WHERETO | To what end he wrote originally ... (7) |
| LENDING | Left something you shouldn't give away, as that's the bank's business (7) |
| PARASOL | Serving men who drop round, left something in a pina colada? (7) |
| INHERIT | It's popular on their travels to be left something (7) |
| MODICUM | "Little time left" -something said after a month (7) |
| LEARNER | Left something that made a good profit for a trainee (7) |
| TRACTOR | He's left the carrot to moulder in agricultural machine (7) |
| MARXIST | He's left to take back six in the vehicle (7) |
| HEIRESS | Woman who's left something back in brasserie-hotel |
| HOBNAIL | Bachelor in Hanoi carelessly left something in boot? |
| LEGUMES | Tucking into what's left, something for sticking peas? |
| TINPANS | Metal containers he's left from the old Peruvians (3,4) |
| OBLIGED | Thankful he's left school (spread fake news about Head of Geography) (7) |
