| LASTSTRAW | Endure a hollow tube as the final outburst ... (4,5) |
| NOVA | Star's final outburst, often |
| STANDFAST | To endure a period of starvation, be resolute (5,4) |
| TASTELESS | Mild, like moulded steel in hollow tubes? (9) |
| STANDARDS | Flags and endures a road admission (9) |
| BATON | A short baguette; a hollow tube passed from runner to runner in a relay race; or, a rectangular piece of carrot, cheese or other food (5) |
| MANICOTTI | Hollow tubes of pasta similar to cannelloni but larger and typically ridged; from Italian, 'little sleeves' (9) |
| RUNSTHEGA | Endures a series of... |
| STRAW | What is a hollow tube used for drinking? (5) |
| ISOLATE | Cordon off contaminated soil with a hollow tube (7) |
| SYRINGE | Hospital needle combined with a hollow tube (7) |
| NIGHT | Twelfth -; eve of the Epiphany, traditionally celebrated as the final day of the Christmas festivities with the apple wassail "lambswool" (5) |
| INTONACO | A layer of fine wet lime plaster laid in sections or "giornate" over the rougher "arriccio" as the final painting surface of a fresco (8) |
| AFP | An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly). |
| ENDPRODUCT | Prick occupying space on Tube as a result (3-7) |
| PIPE | Apply with a tube, as frosting |
| SMALLSCREEN | The tube, as opposed to movies |
| IRONAGE | Era regarded in Greek and Roman mythology as the final stage in man's degeneration from the Golden A |
| YOMP | Thirty-mile trek across the Scottish Highlands in full kit as the final test in a Royal Marinea's tr |
| CANTICLEOFSIMEON | Another name for the Nunc dimittis, often used as the final song in a religious service |
