| DUSTMAN | He's a rubbish worker and must get reassigned |
| SANCTUM | Can and must get a private room (7) |
| CIRCUMSTANCE | The situation Circe can and must get sorted out (12) |
| DANDIES | More than one flashy guy passes away -- and must get buried (7) |
| TIP | A helpful or practical hint; a race prediction; a pourboire; a nib; the end of a finger; a leafbud of a tea plant; a rubbish heap; or, a figurative pigsty (3) |
| DECAFFEINATED | Short black, perhaps lacking that essential get-up-and-go when reassigned, fancied defeat (13) |
| EVALUATED | Assessed a valet due to be reassigned |
| ELIZABETHTAYLOR | Actress a bit lazy? The role has been reassigned (9,6) |
| STATETROOPER | U.S. cop's reassigned to a protester (5,7) |
| MECHANIC | Reassigned by chance, I'm a skilled workman |
| NAGASAKI | Ask again to be reassigned to a city in Japan (8) |
| TAROTCARD | Telecast's opening with a rubbish and eccentric fortune-teller? (5,4) |
| BINLINER | Rubbish holder inside a rubbish holder (3,5) |
| SCRAPDEALER | Get rid of croupier, a rubbish businessman |
| BIN | Describing a bit of a rubbish dump (3) |
| DROP | Bit of a shower head in receptacle in a rubbish dump (8) |
| RAIN | Bit of a shower head in receptacle in a rubbish dump (8) |
| ALLIGATOR | A bit of spirit needed to climb a peak, which is dangerous and must be scaled (9) |
| LEEK | This vegetable, popular in Wales, is flecked and must be topped, tailed and cored before being mashed and served (4) |
| CHECK | A position in chess when a player's king is open to attack and must be protected or moved (5) |
