| MISANTHROPIC | Having resorted to spin, charm, I admitted disliking folk |
| MENDACIOUS | Having used Monica, resorted to lying (10) |
| ACAPULCO | As resorted to by Paul, perhaps, to get into the electricity company |
| EXXONMOB | Due to budget issues, this oil company has resorted to organized crime |
| STREETDOOR | Badger resorted to exit by road (6,4) |
| SELFPITY | Spy one felt resorted to maudlin emotion (4-4) |
| DENOFTHIEVES | Dive he's often resorted to, where one mixes with ... (3,2,7) |
| ABATEMENT | Sailor resorted to cannibalism. It finally provides relief (9) |
| AVOCET | Wader resorted to cave (6) |
| TOTHELAST | Resorted to stealth until one's dying day (2,3,4) |
| CAJOLERY | Carol and Jerry, both heartless, resorted to blandishment (8) |
| THEWOMANINWHITE | Who, when intimate, resorted to a mystery story |
| RECONSTRUCTION | Instructor once resorted to a copy |
| ENGORGE | Egger-on resorted to stuff with fluid |
| NEOLITHIC | Description of old age resorted to in Chile |
| CARTOONIST | Resorted to cast iron drawer |
| CASTIGATION | Accountant's game resorted to in a dressing-down |
| PONYTAIL | Arrangement of locks resorted to in play |
| RECOURSE | One resorted to series of theology lectures |
| PLANE | Tree resorted to, when schemes ABC and D failed? (5) |
