| LACKED | Was without or had too little of (6) |
| RUN | Had too little stock (3,5) |
| SHORT | Had too little stock (3,5) |
| UNDERSTOOD | Had too little endurance, one grasped |
| HALTED | Stopped or had, mistakenly, let through (6) |
| ALLEGE | State without or before proof (7) |
| NEEDED | Was without |
| DROVER | Doctor had too much left behind by a rancher (6) |
| EXCESS | An old church, on two Sundays, had too much (6) |
| ODEDON | Had too much of, briefly |
| REDASA | Arrested a slob, out of control, having had too much sun perhaps (3,2,1,7) |
| BOOZED | Had too much hard stuff |
| MOZART | "Wunderkind" who composed a minuet at the age of five and a further 600 opuses during his remaining 30 years of life, including Il Seraglio for "musical king" Joseph II, who famously said the opera ha |
| SANS | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| UNDERESTIMATING | Thinking too little of, selling short (15) |
| UNDERESTIMATED | Think too little of foreign articles affecting media test (14) |
| UNDERRATE | Think too little of French article about the German deserter (9) |
| UNDERRATING | Thinking too little of (11) |
| STRAPPED | Without, or very short of, money (8) |
| UNDERSELL | Make too little of oneself, lends rule to others (9) |
