| CAPINHAND | Accountant quietly being treated like a beggar? |
| KNEE | Joint for a beggar? |
| TIMING | Belt on a mini is being treated like a joke perhaps (6) |
| SPOONFED | Made a satire about knight being treated like a child (5-3) |
| AGEBENT | Live in a public toilet, deserted by society, like a beggar in Blake's London (3-4) |
| CADGES | Acts like a beggar and finishes in enclosures |
| BLOWIN | Suddenly appear depressed, being treated like rubbish? (4,2) |
| OLIVEDRAB | I loved bra being treated like military uniform |
| SUMMONEDBYBELLS | Poet's reminiscences of being treated like country-house footman? |
| PLYING | Quietly being deceptive about working at a trade (6) |
| PEEPING | Going about quietly, being a spy |
| MASK | To the ancients, a "nightmare, spectre, witch"; to us, that which allows a beggar to dance with a king or a secret to stay hidden in plain sight; or, a disguise for a ball (4) |
| AFAREWELLTOALMS | Biography of a onetime beggar? |
| PORPOISE | Sea creature quietly being collected, or cornered |
| UPTURNS | Reversals of policy quietly being introduced to bring improvements |
| APP | Programme that's drivel, quietly being dropped |
| SANGUINE | Son suffering quietly being purged with new energy, becoming cheerful (8) |
| HELPOUT | Man quietly being apprehended by thug gets aid (4,3) |
| SOLDAPUP | Uploads corrupted, quietly being ripped off (4,1,3) |
| ALLDEVOURING | A girl unloved, treated like a locust |