| WACKFORDSQUEERS | Schoolmaster in novel acquires row of desks - so I must be expelled (8,7) |
| SULPHUR | Element shortly found in centre of desks? (7) |
| ROLLTOP | List best type of desks? (4-3) |
| PERSONANONGRATA | Odd OAP stranger arrested - soon he'll be expelled (7,3,5) |
| SOCIALSTUDIES | 'I hang out with my friends all the time, so I must be an expert in ___' |
| ALTISSIMO | Very highly placed? I'm last, so I must be different |
| MISSOUT | Fail to include something, so I must be corrected |
| PENCILSHARPENER | Cannier rep helps to shift piece of desk equipment (6,9) |
| YOGISM | The art of exercising in gym, so I must make a move |
| ERGO | ? so I must ring head of Rentokil (4) |
| ICHABODCRANE | Schoolmaster in 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (7,5) |
| ICHABOD | Mr. Crane, schoolmaster in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (7) |
| CASTOUT | A drink needed by first of children to be expelled (4,3) |
| MEDICAMENT | Quandary: pair to be expelled for minute use of drug? |
| YET | In Moscow, no nationalist has been expelled so far |
| TUNESMITH | I produce strains? Then I must get treated |
| INTHEPINK | Well, then, I must change the colour (2,3,4) |
| DESIRED | Wanted to be a schoolmaster, in fact (7) |
| SIR | Way to address schoolmaster in class, I reckon |
| SPEW | Be expelled rapidly in large quantities |
