| WINTERBREAK | Arbiter knew how to spoil an end of year holiday (6,5) |
| XMASES | End-of-year holidays, for short |
| SYNE | End of an end-of-year song |
| RAISE | Subject of an end-of-year office memo, maybe |
| MARX | Political philosopher shows how to spoil vote |
| MAR | How to spoil Mother, right? (3) |
| PHOTOFINISH | An end of a race requiring an examination of a freeze-frame to decide the result (5,6) |
| SHOPSTEWARD | An end of his - we stop hard work? |
| SALOME | She knew how to get a head |
| UREMINDME | No. 1 Usher song with the line "Wish I knew how to separate the two" |
| ITSPECIALIST | ... "I wish I knew how to quit you" |
| OFFCUT | An end of timber, ort of food, remnant of carpet/cloth/fabric, shred of paper, scrag-end of mutton or other surplus oddment that is left over after severing a larger piece (6) |
| ELIAS | Howe who knew how to sew |
| COULD | Knew how to |
| ELLA | Fitzgerald who knew how to scat |
| DOTEON | Perhaps spoil an eternity after the very first year? |
| OFFENDER | He might make end of ref, or ref might make an end of him! |
| QUEERTHEPITCH | Spoil an opportunity (for someone) (5,3,5) |
| PROP | In rugby, either of the forwards at an end of the front row of a scrum (4) |
| STONEHENGE | Last spring, my son, who has an end-of-terrace place right in the centre of Henton, travelled to a well-known tourist attraction in Wiltshire (10) |
