| RECCE | Look around, when about to get carbon copy, at the end, in short (5) |
| SCALD | Lads managed to get carbon to burn (5) |
| REPENT | Feel discontent and peer around when about to be at home (6) |
| REPINE | Feel discontent and peer around when about to be at home (6) |
| SUCCINCT | Short cuts lost without carbon copy at home (8) |
| XEROX | Copy at the office |
| PEWTER | Look around when short weight possibly makes mugs (6) |
| CROUP | You end in short cut throat inflammation |
| APEX | Copy at the top |
| ISHOULDNTWONDER | . . . . likely this would end in short supply (1,8,6) |
| OLDER | Rode around when about fifty and senior in years (5) |
| IDLER | He does nothing but ride around when about fifty (5) |
| STOIC | One resigned when about to get endlessly ill (5) |
| COYPU | Water rat's a poor copy at centre court (5) |
| MANSE | Many reply, in short, at the end, in residence (5) |
| INTRO | At the end, in fact, get in trouble (5) |
| COVER | Insure a customer right at the end in the field (5) |
| OCEAN | ... and a small firm returned, at the end, in the main (5) |
| LILLE | Left a long line, at the end, in a French city (5) |
| ANKLE | Head off Yank, left, at the end, in a low joint (5) |