| SCRUNCH | Administer clubs in school - but screw up! |
| MAKEAHORLICKSOF | Take steps to sleep with old fellow but screw up (4,1,8,2) |
| BITOF | Too bad if this little party screws up! (3,2,1,2) |
| ADO | Too bad if this little party screws up! (3,2,1,2) |
| GLEE | Type of club in school |
| SMOOCH | Sound like a cow in school, but get kissing |
| COURAGE | 'But screw your ___ to the sticking-place' (Shakespeare Macbeth act 1 so. 7) (7) |
| ESTONIA | IRA heartlessly going after school head in school, but not in this country (7) |
| ASHTRAYS | In the forest, square and in schools but no longer in pubs? (8) |
| RETRO | Old-school, but back in fashion (5) |
| TRAINSET | Aims gun at half the school - but it's just a toy |
| SPRAT | One from a very large school - but that's small fish! (5) |
| INSERVIDAYS | Times when teachers go to school but students don't |
| BUS | Some kids walk to school, but others take the ___ |
| DAYSCHOLAR | One attends boarding school but lives at home (3-7) |
| DUCHY | Territory contains Sunday school, but no cowboy saloons |
| ADEAR | "Experience keeps ___ school, but..." |
| SPORTSCASTERS | These presenters, who work on an American football programme, come from Starcross and initially taught PE at primary schools, but they were terrible (13) |
| OVERDEVELOP | Screw up in the darkroom |
| MISMANAGE | Screw up for one brief second in r-run (9) |