| OVERBOLD | Sweetheart losing head, left to be taken in by person too audacious (8) |
| STOLEN | Hot Christmas cake left to be taken away (6) |
| TOPOF | Head left to drop out from superior position. (3,2,3,6) |
| THELEADER | Head left to drop out from superior position. (3,2,3,6) |
| UNLOVED | Starved of affection, star, losing head, left half-finished edition (7) |
| DAREI | "Is it too audacious of me?" |
| SONATA | Musical work taken in by person at academy (6) |
| IMMORAL | Wrong marks twice taken in by person setting exam (7) |
| OVERMATCH | Be stronger than sweetheart losing head before wedding (9) |
| OVER | Maiden, possibly sweetheart losing head |
| LAMEEXCUSE | Sweetheart losing head over former sweetheart's heartless malediction? I'm not buying it (4,6) |
| MOSQUITO | Insect stinger's head left in low (8) |
| RUTHLESS | Callous, deceitful head's left (8) |
| CLINICAL | 151 back in California left to be to the letter and unemotional (8) |
| IMPLORED | Pleaded to have more dip left to be used (8) |
| CHARADES | Game prince left, to be replaced by a democratic leader (8) |
| SELFSAME | Identical seeds oddly left to be planted inside (8) |
| CRYQUITS | Declare something even with lines left to be penned by Civil Service (3,5) |
| COLDFEET | Reluctance to proceed: code left to be cracked |
| REPAIRED | Left to be fixed (8) |
