| DOUBTS | "Our ___ are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt": Lucio, in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (6) |
| ASTONE | Ruth Langsford is helping us Lose _ _ For Christmas on TV (1,5) |
| COLUMNISTS | Journalists are traitors when pursuing fifth (10) |
| AUDITIONS | So Aunt Di and I are to attend them to see how good we are? (9) |
| CANZONI | Title shared by albums by Italian artists Lucio Dalla, Fabrizio De Andre, Chiara Civello and Mietta |
| ILLS | "And makes us rather bear those ___ we have...": Hamlet, in his famous soliloquy |
| ROOD | Sounds vulgar for the god-fearing to have across the back door. (4) |
| RATS | Rodents whose mass exodus from sinking ships gave rise to their association with deserters, traitors and daily competitive struggles (4) |
| LIPS | Song by the Go-Go's: "Our _ Are Sealed" |
| SINS | "Our ___ are more easily remembered than our good deeds": Democritus (4) |
| ARTE | ____ et labore, with skill and hard work (the Rovers might win the league again one day) |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| SEWERRATS | Small pitcher next to traitors and vermin |
| CLAUDIA | ___ Winkleman, presenter of The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing (7) |
| TWA | Its slogan was once "Find out how good we really are" |
| VIVALDI | Baroque Italian composer, Antonio Lucio ___, whose Four Seasons is performed in candlelight on December 1 at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall (7) |
| SELL | It's out to turn traitor and it's up to liquidise (4) |
| DOUBLEACT | What has four legs and makes us laugh -- dodo? (6,3) |
| RAVEN | Inhabitant of Tower fearing to be executed |
| POSTULATES | Puts forward appointment and makes us late (10) |
