| WAMU | 2008 bank failure, for short |
| ELEC | There's none in a power failure, for short |
| FLOOD | Result of a bank failure? |
| DUCK | A batting failure for a famous Donald |
| WATERLOO | Signal failure for French railway terminal |
| TRAINSET | Drops in test failure for scaled-down transport system |
| FIASCO | Abject failure, for example, conveyed by contemptuous gesture |
| CARETAKER | Coach holds test after failure for keeper |
| TWANG | A box-office failure for Lionel Bart (5) |
| TIMELAPSE | Spell failure for this shooting style? |
| NOGO | Two words of failure for NASA |
| MANIKIN | Lost rag with rainmaking failure for dummy character (7) |
| IMP | Rival to the Mini which was a successful rally car but a commercial failure for the Rootes Group, Hi |
| FRAILTYTHYNAMEISWOMAN | Sex altogether a failure for Hamlet? He blamed his mother |
| ABSTRACTNOUN | Failure, for example, of NBC broadcast with astronaut (8,4) |
| DUD | Failure for all to see in heart of muddle (3) |
| FLOP | It's a failure for a dandy to get left out (4) |
| REFUSAL | No failures for a change when I depart (7) |
| GIGAFLOP | Term, evocative of a billion failures, for a unit of computing rate equal to one thousand million floating-point operations per second (8) |
| NOBODYSFOOL | Failure for starter, summer pudding: one's not swallowed much (7,4) |
