| CHAPPIE | Without his pie, would he still be the man he was? (7) |
| COCKAHOOP | “You’ll make a mutiny among my guests, / You will set ____! You’ll be the man!” (Romeo and Juliet) |
| PLUM | What Jack Horner pulled from his pie, in a nursery rhyme |
| ADIPOSE | Became fatty because of his pie and soda intake (7) |
| KING | At draughts, he's twice the man he was! (4) |
| IMETA | "___ man, he was a good man" (Frank Black lyric) |
| HARDY | Poet who mourned the man he killed in the Boer War? (5) |
| OOH | ELP "___, what a lucky man he was" |
| EARTH | Clay is the man he held up (5) |
| ADAM | What a mad old man he was! (4) |
| RICHARDII | King of England deposed by the man he had once exiled, Henry Bolingbroke (7,2) |
| GORSE | Bush second, held by the man he formerly beat? (5) |
| RUFFIAN | Collar the man. He's a scoundrel (7) |
| CHEQUERED | Flag at the end of the race - but still be the winner |
| BISCAY | Were there no island to see, there would still be the bay |
| EARLIEST | Rise late, perhaps, but still be the first (8) |
| DOWNSIDEUP | Erect, you might think, but that'd still be the wrong way... (8-2) |
| ELLA | She'd still be the old queen of jazz, as befits her, namely. (4) |
| CLIFFHANGER | WHO SHOT J.R.? MAY STILL BE THE MOST FAMOUS ONE |
| OLDNICK | A war-time minor wound could still be the devil! (3,4) |
