| UNCTUOUS | Leaving university, count us, sadly, as sycophantic |
| CUCKOLDS | Clock us sadly admitting daughter isn't faithful |
| BOISTEROUS | Loud sob about one tore us sadly (10) |
| ROSEBUD | Partly opened sweet briar, say ... bored us, sadly! (7) |
| BASIE | William, known as Count, US jazz musician who died in 1984 (5) |
| DEAFENING | Define nag, sadly, as very loud (9) |
| TASKMASTER | Makes start, sadly, as scourge of workforce? |
| TOWBOAT | A bow that's OTT, sadly, as a tug (7) |
| POTBELLIED | Poet billed sadly as overweight (3,7) |
| CAROLSINGER | Woman to resign, sadly, as performer |
| STUDIO | Workshop for the academic? Count us out! (6) |
| WOULDEVER | "Count us in!" |
| CONTINUOUS | It's going on to count us in about nothing (10) |
| ONTHREE | "I'll count us in" |
| AFTERHOURS | Rather late, say, for the USA, sadly bringing in Republican |
| UNSEAT | Oust from United States, sadly, lacking ID test (6) |
| MOPED | Went round sadly as a cleaner the editor briefly took to (5) |
| CHUCKINGITDOWN | No witch ducking sadly as it's raining heavily (8,2,4) |
| FEEBLE | Inadequate payment by university athlete leaving university (6) |
| PROFESSOR | Academic reproofs us nastily, leaving university (9) |
