| GETTINGACROSS | Communicating one's ideas but achieving a wrong mark (7,6) |
| GETTINGON | Advancing but achieving no return (7,2) |
| AFTERTHOUGHTS | Slow-to-be-expressed ideas, but time during pudding (13) |
| THINKINGALOUD | Expressing one's ideas when cogitation is permitted, we hear (8,5) |
| BADIMPRESSION | Wrong Mark is charged? It's the work of one of those awful apes! (3,10) |
| AMEANSTOANEND | Unimportant thing useful in achieving a goal (1,5,2,2,3) |
| ACCOMPLISHING | Achieving, ... a lot |
| GETACROSS | Take effect but obtain a wrong mark (3,6) |
| ACROSTIC | Puzzle of a wrong mark and right mark for oral presentation |
| ANTHRAX | Worker on short time gets a wrong mark, it's a disease (7) |
| EXTERNAL | One sort of examiner always circles a wrong mark (8) |
| ACROSS | A wrong mark on the other side (6) |
| SUBMITS | Puts forward one's own ideas, but surrenders in the end (7) |
| HEARMEOUT | "I know you think this is a ludicrous idea, but ..." |
| BRANDYALEXANDER | Call a university dean out on wrong mark after finishing drink (6,9) |
| ADAMANT | Fixed in one's ideas (7) |
| DRAMATISES | Brings one's ideas into play (10) |
| THOUGHT | Had idea, but limited time |
| OVATION | New idea but lacking in new audience enthusiasm (7) |
| HEAVENKNOWS | I've no idea, but the angels are aware (6,5) |