| BARKED | Unfortunately break down, as boxer perhaps did (6) |
| DECAYS | Daughter Casey unfortunately breaks down |
| FORBES | Unfortunately, break set of potential SNP Leader (4,6) |
| KATE | Unfortunately, break set of potential SNP Leader (4,6) |
| BETRAYS | Bert, say, unfortunately breaks faith |
| DIGEST | Break down, as food |
| JAMMED | What musicians perhaps did in heavy traffic at the seaside? (6) |
| YELPED | Youth leader did someone a favour losing the head as boxer cried (6) |
| PARSES | Breaks down, as a sentence |
| SEDUCE | Perhaps do this to pull church seat around passage? No time (6) |
| ORDEAL | Perhaps do Lear, and then The Trial (6) |
| SOURCE | Origin of ketchup perhaps, do we hear? (6) |
| BELTED | Flogged, as boxer may be |
| DOGGED | Boxer, perhaps, starts to get energetic and distinctly tenacious (6) |
| KENNEL | Protection for a boxer, perhaps (6) |
| TOPDOG | Champion boxer, perhaps (3,3) |
| HOTDOG | Boxer, perhaps, attracted to popular fast food (3,3) |
| GODOWN | Retired boxer perhaps begins personal decline (2,4) |
| PROPUP | Support for young boxer, perhaps (4,2) |
| UNDIES | Boxers perhaps used in novel (6) |
