| DECREMENT | Amount taken off last month by the writer in rent (9) |
| DEDUCTION | Inference made of amount taken off (9) |
| INDECORUM | Bad taste shown during last month by old eccentric? (9) |
| DEPENDENCE | Write about death in the last month by drug addiction |
| ENVOI | Final stanza recalled verse penned by the writer in two forms |
| METROPOLIS | Store opening recalled by the writer in city |
| CONCEIT | Arrogance once shown by the writer in court (7) |
| DECAMP | Make off last month with sound system (6) |
| DECAYED | Went off last month, yes, with diamonds (7) |
| INAUGURAL | President's address during summer month by the river |
| RIDERLESS | Missing one in the saddle, as is the writer in 14 (9) |
| TRIUMVIRI | There at the start the writer, in spirit, takes six runs with independent group of rulers (9) |
| ENGROSSED | Need change to hold entire amount taken in and wholly occupied |
| JEBELMUSA | States, after the writer in French book, tree height in Morocco |
| ACHIEVERS | The writer, in pain, read French poetry for successful people (9) |
| APPOINTEE | Take off last of cellophane, packaging item one's put in post (9) |
| MATUTINAL | Runner from Utah heading off last before noon (9) |
| METEORITE | Give out, or pair off, last galactic visitor (9) |
| ONTHEWAY | Due to arrive soon, after the first of the month, by the eastern road |
| REDGRAVE | Actress who starred in Mary, Queen of Scots, Julia (for which she was awarded an Oscar), Howards End, A Month by the Lake, Atonement and The Butler (8) |
