| INAHOLE | Needing help, having gone to earth (2,1,4) |
| SABBATH | This is the day to rest choir's 6, tenor having gone to spa |
| SUNDECK | Where voyager got tan, having gone to bottom around December (7) |
| DEAFAID | Return perished, clutching a fag, having lost gravity and needing help to hear (4,3) |
| INASPOT | From Spain arranged to get back, needing help (2,1,4) |
| ANTACID | Settler needing help to protect new queen maybe on the way back (7) |
| INABIND | Needing help: 3 wds. |
| BASSIST | String player in Beethoven's first needing help (7) |
| LAMEDOG | One needing help (over stile?) (4,3) |
| RAPHAEL | Artist needing help, a troubled painter (7) |
| RELIANT | Sound angry about priest needing help from others |
| HELIPAD | Where the big 'birds' land, needing help/aid (7) |
| WEBB | Author of Gone to Earth (4) |
| MARYWEBB | Shropshire writer of Gone to Earth and Precious Bane (4,4) |
| DEADLOCK | Inability to make progress, having gone to Yale? (8) |
| ELOPED | Edward to bound in, having gone to the match |
| COMPTERENDU | Sort of boat having gone to the bottom, PC to finish official report |
| MEANSWELL | Tries to help, having left after breaking news during dinner perhaps (5,4) |
| CANED | Journalist, having gone to jail, is given corporal punishment (5) |
| PARTICULATE | Quiet and well-spoken - having gone to pieces? |
