| READIED | Prepared to end in study (7) |
| SETADATE | Prepared to end an engagement |
| YEARNED | Longed for a period in life to end in style (7) |
| DECEASE | Disembowelled dove to end in death. (7) |
| LENO | His tenure was set to end in 2009, to the delight of many, though he's reported to be reconsidering |
| CHESTOFDRAWERS | Game about to end in grief with prize going back in storage unit (5,2,7) |
| TOMORROWS | Cat to have sadness, beginning to end, in days to come (9) |
| ILLSTARRED | Doomed to end in failure (3-7) |
| BILLYLIAR | A fantasist, Blair struggles to admit: "I'm going to end in ignominy" (5,4) |
| SWORDFISH | Swimmer to cross water first to end in elegant surroundings (9) |
| MATINS | Early morning service from front of terminus in Maine State to end in Massachusetts (6) |
| TIER | Tightrope walker goes from end-to-end in part of stadium (4) |
| GOBETWEEN | Information, involving tangled web, to end in remorse for intermediary (2-7) |
| SPAN | Bridge / the full extent from end to end in space or time |
| NOWINSITUATION | Presently in job that's bound to end in failure (2-3,9) |
| COMETOGRIEF | Firm encountered by one in poor forge gets to end in failure (4,2,5) |
| DUEL | Expected to end in mortal combat |
| SCRAG | Pole on cliff to end in stew (5) |
| MILL | Where trouble's expected to end in a fight (4) |
| REIGN | Rule to end in downfall, one hears |
