| NERVERACKING | It's never about writing to a cold figure on the board creating stress (5-7) |
| DISPENSER | One is contemptuous about writing to pharmacist, perhaps (9) |
| NEEDIER | Poetically, it's never about decline being more pathetic |
| CHESSMAN | Revolutionary's son to join staff and figure on the board (8) |
| AKINGAMONGSTMEN | Bigwig: most important figure on the board? (1,4,7,3) |
| SADNESS | A post promoted on board creating grief (7) |
| RANK | Managed to get man on board, creating a row (4) |
| STINKERS | Monkey on board creating big problems (8) |
| GOOSEPIMPLES | Response to a cold breeze? (5,7) |
| PRESCRIPTION | Detective grasps it's about writing on drugs, on paper (12) |
| PRETTYPLEASE | Pleading, flattering request to be mean-spirited about writing by a muse? (6,6) |
| FEVERISHNESS | High temperature due to a cold (12) |
| HOCKEYPLAYER | Figure on the back of a new Canadian bill |
| PROVERB | Put to the test by writing to a follower for words of wisdom (7) |
| RAPARTISTS | Musicians writing to a tenor in Paris on back street (3,7) |
| CURSEOFTHEBAMBINO | "It Was Never About the Babe: The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the _": 2015 book by Jerry Gutlon |
| MEMSAHIB | Boss lady and compiler writing to a hospital from the same source (8) |
| CESAR | Chavez who said, "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people" |
| KELVEDON | ___ Hatch, village in Essex that is home to a cold war bunker that is open to the public |
| ADAMS | President writing to a girl (5) |
