| TRENDIEST | Most fashionable, but comes to an end in river |
| DREARY | Level rising higher, house ends in river (6) |
| DEGREE | Level rising higher, house ends in river (6) |
| OTTOMAN | Created in Anatolia (Asia Minor), this empire grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. It came to an end in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish |
| SEVER | River hasn't come to an end in dock (5) |
| TOFFEE | Such a swell takes his ease but comes to a sticky end (6) |
| AVIATOR | Amy Johnson, whose career came to an end in the Thames estuary in 1941, was a famous one of these (7) |
| DYING | Coming to an end in vandalised dingy (5) |
| LAPSE | Come to an end, in a way |
| COMATOSE | KO'D but comes to. A puzzle! (8) |
| TUMBLES | Performs acrobatically, but comes to grief (7) |
| NIL | Some adrenaline returns - but comes to nothing (3) |
| MADRID | This Spanish capital city was finally occupied by Franco as the civil war came to an end in March, 1 |
| PERORATION | Agent sets up Oxford allotment, bringing things to an end, in a manner of speaking (10) |
| SUNSET | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a sign off in the sky, dipping under the horizon as the day comes to an end" |
| CLOSES | Waste in the Civil Service comes to an end |
| DIES | Day in Rome comes to an end |
| TAIL | Time to be sickly comes to an end (4) |
| INNINGS | Comes to an end when there is no batter left to use (7) |
| AMENDING | As the morning comes to an end it appears to be improving (8) |
