| TRENDIEST | Most fashionable, but comes to an end in river |
| DREARY | Level rising higher, house ends in river (6) |
| DEGREE | Level rising higher, house ends in river (6) |
| OTTOMAN | Created in Anatolia (Asia Minor), this empire grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. It came to an end in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish |
| SEVER | River hasn't come to an end in dock (5) |
| TOFFEE | Such a swell takes his ease but comes to a sticky end (6) |
| AVIATOR | Amy Johnson, whose career came to an end in the Thames estuary in 1941, was a famous one of these (7) |
| DYING | Coming to an end in vandalised dingy (5) |
| LAPSE | Come to an end, in a way |
| COMATOSE | KO'D but comes to. A puzzle! (8) |
| NIL | Some adrenaline returns - but comes to nothing (3) |
| TUMBLES | Performs acrobatically, but comes to grief (7) |
| MADRID | This Spanish capital city was finally occupied by Franco as the civil war came to an end in March, 1 |
| PERORATION | Agent sets up Oxford allotment, bringing things to an end, in a manner of speaking (10) |
| HAMMER | Auctioneer's gavel; a piano string striker; an athletic throwing event; or, the last stone in an end in curling (6) |
| INLAY | Marquetry that's fashionable but having an unprofessional finish |
| INGROWN | Fashionable but unfortunately wrong way for a nail to be (7) |
| TITULAR | City centre turns ultra-fashionable, but in name only (7) |
| OVER | A word meaning above, across, at an end, in excess, into a sleep or throughout; or, with "easy", a manner of cooking an egg (4) |
| INSERT | Run in most fashionable group to place inside |
