| ROUGHEST | The most brutish thug heading off to stop all others |
| USEFULLY | Fuse having blown, thug heading off in helpful manner |
| GOALIE | Attempt a whopper, for one who tries to stop all attempts? (6) |
| ASSAD | Congressman Rothman called him a "brutish thug" |
| NATIONALTRUST | Preservationists: people heading off to stop the rot? |
| LORNADOONE | Storm heading off to stop solitary heroine (5,5) |
| SIGN | It's up to enlist and it's off to stop work (4) |
| GESTATION | Get time off to stop development |
| EASE | Head off to stop, at one's leisure (4) |
| DETERIORATE | Go off to stop one old judge (11) |
| FUNERALBLUES | W.H. Auden poem that begins 'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone' (7,5) |
| GORILLA | Thug heading for real trouble in Goa |
| WHAUDEN | Poet whose 'Stop all the clocks' featured 'n the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1,1,5) |
| CLEARTHEAIR | Stop all flying to remove suspicion (5,3,3) |
| EMBARGO | Amber interpreted green light to mean stop all movement (7) |
| SAFE | Stop all fighting, everyone! First of all, be free from harm (4) |
| AUDEN | "Stop All the Clocks" poet, 1936 |
| GOBACKTO | Distraught, asks Big Tobacco: "Stop all the fancy stuff!" (2,4,2,6) |
| BASICS | Distraught, asks Big Tobacco: "Stop all the fancy stuff!" (2,4,2,6) |
| UNITE | Stop all the infighting |
