| FORCEOF | 10 & 11Ac. It's difficult to give up, around office or bath (5,2,5) |
| HABIT | It's difficult to give up, around office or bath (5,2,5) |
| HABITFORMING | Making it difficult to give up dress modelling |
| QUIETLY | Subtly drops to give up around last of the telly goofs compilation - w 27ac (7,4,2,2) |
| LETSGOOF | Subtly drops to give up around last of the telly goofs compilation - see 11dn (7,4,2,2) |
| PASTES | Sticks with sweets, difficult to give up (6) |
| HARDBACK | Difficult to give one's support to book (8) |
| PHLOEM | Help out around office with master of botanical tissue (6) |
| RUDENESS | Regrets going around office delivering insults - in the end it's bad manners (8) |
| APOSTLE | Leading advocate wanting beer around office |
| UNDO | Release some around office (4) |
| SCISSOR | and 11ac, American band whose members include Ana Matronic and Babydaddy |
| ROGERTAYLOR | and 11ac, 1971 and 1972 US Open men's doubles tennis championship winner |
| BONNIEAND | And 11ac 20th cent. American duo who were notorious robbers and killers (6,3,5) |
| ROGER | and 11ac, 1971 and 1972 US Open men's doubles tennis championship winner |
| PETER | and 11ac, BBC presenter and sports commentator whose television credits included Come Dancing |
| JIMMY | and 11ac, Entertainer who played Banjo in 1942 film comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| MEMOS | They fly around offices |
| PLUG | Type of bung for a sink or bath; or, one of a number of seedlings planted in a tray (4) |
| ROOM | Word attached to dark or bath |
