| OVERKILL | Excess beyond what is required on mark of cancellation (8) |
| UPCOUNTRY | Reckoning track is required on hike inland |
| DIPLOMAT | Envoy's graduation certificate required on top of those (8) |
| ATHLETIC | Fit Latin insertion into two articles on Mark, when ending's scrapped (8) |
| ULTERIOR | Of a motive, beyond what is stated or apparent (8) |
| PROTOCOL | Formal etiquette required on state occasions (8) |
| PROPERTY | A building that's required on stage (8) |
| CLASSACT | 1992 comedy film, starring Kid 'n Play, based on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper |
| OCTAGON | Figure label required on front of case, nothing on bags |
| DAYSOFOURLIVES | The entire cast of this soap opera, which premiered in 1965, were released from their contracts earlier this month, prompting fears of cancellation |
| ADELE | A suggestion of cancellation from British singer |
| ITSOFF | Make terrible fist of cancellation notice |
| SURPLUS | A quantity or amount in excess of what is required (7) |
| OVERFAR | Dancing of raver is going beyond what is reasonable |
| CENTRESTAGE | Focus of interest US money, balance required on time (6,5) |
| ASCOT | A second set of books required on Charlie’s course |
| SLALOM | Some paracetamol also required, on reflection, for a sort of obstacle race? |
| PAR | Suggested number of strokes required on a golf course (3) |
| STL | Letters on Mark McGwire's cap |
| BRUNOMARS | Pop singer featured on Mark Ronson's 2015 #1 song "Uptown Funk": 2 wds. |
