| TOPTOBOTTOM | All over when you opt to toot at tomb in bad taste (3,2,6) |
| DONE | All over when partly pardoned |
| TOMATO | Toot at mother for what's in the salad (6) |
| JOHN | (& 24-across) Toot at crossing (4,4) |
| JOURNEYSEND | Trip over, when you get in your front door (8,3) |
| LOSEONESBALANCE | Keel over when you squander the entire amount in your account (4,4,7) |
| ELI | Name left over when you eliminate two-thirds of a word in this clue |
| HALFHEARTEDDOLLAR | Money forked over when you don't really think you lost the bet? |
| UNEATEN | It's left over when you clear up (7) |
| BRAGGADOCIOUS | Willing to toot one's own horn (3, 4); use the syllable numbers after the theme clues to start singing our mystery song |
| BRAG | What one might do after saying "I don't mean to toot my own horn, but . . ." |
| PIPER | One tutored to toot |
| OTTO | Name that anagrams to "toot" |
| BRASSSECTION | Where to toot one's own horn? |
| PYRAMID | Some scrappy ram I discovered in tomb in Egypt (7) |
| KHARTOUM | Said vehicle going to said tomb in an African capital (8) |
| SICKNESSBENEFIT | 'It's in bad taste if nest's been destroyed' - you have to be more than 24 to get that one! (8,7) |
| EATONESWORDS | You won't want to, if your remarks are in bad taste (3,4,5) |
| HOLYSEPULCHRE | In the New Testament, the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion (4,9) |
| MEDINA | The papers cover up first news of tomb in holy place (6) |
