| VENERABILITY | Presumed quality of archdeacon, never going wrong, having competence (12) |
| PENSIONPLANS | Payout leaving work at Goal with final handouts? That's never going to work for everyone with money! |
| SHADOWBOXING | Never going to lay a finger on constant companion putting up obstacles in The Ring (6-6) |
| PIGSMIGHTFLY | The force's power is improvised when it's never going to happen (4,5,3) |
| GUILTINESS | State of having done something wrong having mangled single suit (10) |
| FERRISWHEEL | Attraction of a fair caress - do wrong having naughty wish within (6.5) |
| ERRATIC | You do wrong having a twitch of the irregular kind (7) |
| TORT | Wrong having a lot of cake? |
| AVENGE | Retaliate on behalf of archdeacon in mature years (6) |
| NOVENA | Absence of archdeacon to lead a devotion |
| AVENGER | Fury, perhaps, of archdeacon in time meeting resistance |
| SOUVENIR | Reminder of archdeacon, one tucking into tart |
| VENOM | Spite of archdeacon initially over Mass |
| CONSTANT | This doesn't change substance of archdeacon's tantrum |
| AGELONG | A sticky substance on top of garden, never going away? |
| VENEER | Finish part of degree, never going back! (6) |
| OFFEND | Do wrong, having bad intention (6) |
| MONOCULAR | Colour man got wrong, having limited vision |
| PRESSEDON | Have the reporters done wrong, having continued with their journey? (7,2) |
| NOWISER | Owner is wrong having learnt nothing else (2,5) |
