| ROUNDON | Men in retreat mostly ruined attack |
| ROTTENBOROUGH | Men in retreat, Dicky for one has to abandon front in corrupt constituency |
| LAITIES | Non-clergy groups in retreat, mostly couples (7) |
| HAVEITOFF | Make love in retreat, mostly with one aristocrat (4,2,3) |
| LOS | Former reputation is mostly ruined |
| AMENDED | Dame Edna, mostly ruined, improved |
| DRUNKARD | Toper or libertine mostly in retreat, held by doctor and in Germany (8) |
| APSE | In despair, in retreat, find space for altar (4) |
| ORDNANCE | In retreat, also run in after weapons (8) |
| STATISTIC | ...In fact still kept pose in retreat (9) |
| TENDRIL | Shoot film in retreat: Doctor in Love (7) |
| ILLFATED | Unlucky one, round in valley, in retreat (3-5) |
| CRAWL | Slow advance in Civil War, Confederates in retreat |
| HONESTLY | Pious in retreat? On the contrary, in truth (8) |
| LIAISON | Secret affair is in operation after trouble in retreat (7) |
| WORMCAST | Line in retreat, a thousand actors in formation on beach |
| KASHMIRI | Monarch remains on edge in retreat, one coming from a region in Asia (8) |
| NAIROBI | African capital where African's in retreat, British coming in for victory |
| TETRAMETER | Characters in retreat organised, having got together in a sort of line |
| ROOMONTHEBROOM | A few weeks to live in retreat among native Australians and Maoris, primarily, in one of 13's stories (4,2,3,5) |
