| EAR | A listener of disheartening stories (3) |
| SAD | Disheartening |
| OFF | Disheartening |
| PIECE | Serenity for the listener of musical work (5) |
| FOREARM | Inform listener of upper body part (7) |
| WARYEARS | Cautious listeners of 1939-45? |
| HEYBIGBROTHER | 1971 single whose lyrics may remind listeners of "1984" |
| DITHER | Vacillate, disheartening a digger of trenches (6) |
| CORER | This has a disheartening effect on apples, for example |
| TANG | Sharpness of the taunting was disheartening (4) |
| FRATERNAL | Disheartening for an alert group of brothers (9) |
| NOEL | Disheartening Dickens work, perhaps A Christmas Carol (4) |
| OFFPUTTING | No more playing golf? That's disheartening (3-7) |
| JOEY | Little Australian bounder disheartening a jockey (4) |
| CARERS | They provide support using Greek counterpart of Mars, disheartening Caesar |
| SOURSTINGY | 18 Dn's embittered, mean, disheartening mendicant's definition of the Scottish people (4,6,10,7) |
| BEGGARS | 18Dn's embittered. mean. disheartening mendicant's definition of the Scottish people (4,6,10,7) |
| DEPRESSING | 18Dn's embittered, mean, disheartening mendicant's definition of the Scottish people (4,6,10,7) |
| FIST | Hand over this at a fast clip in disheartening inaugural (4) |
| GOBACK | Turning taxi round in disheartening gridlock, return to point A (2,4) |
