| SLEEPYHEAD | Artful teacher claims English exercises set back someone not attending fully? |
| RECOVER | Bring back someone wandering around the City |
| ANTITYPE | Converse when a body dispenses with English exercises |
| DEEPER | English exercises in study become more intense (6) |
| REEDPIPE | Rudely pried around English exercises for section of organ (4-4) |
| DEEPEN | English exercises in study become more intense (6) |
| SHOEMAKERS | She marks Old English exercises? Cobblers! |
| INPART | Acting - but not fully? (2,4) |
| INEPT | Popular English exercises make you awkward |
| GRATEFUL | Under obligation, dropping rate fully? Only partially (8) |
| ELABORATE | Able, incompetent, or one without trade to explain fully? (9) |
| TOTHENINES | Shoe in tent damaged fully? (2,3,5) |
| EPILATE | Have a close shave as English exercise cut short (7) |
| ENTRAIN | Enthralled by English exercise, men finally get into Pullman, perhaps (7) |
| FREEFORM | What a less structured music teacher might be teaching - is that reason for not attending class perhaps? (4,4) |
| CUTTERS | They're not attending the lectures on boats (7) |
| CLOTHEARS | One not attending to Charles somehow (5-4) |
| ABSENTEEISM | Batsmen I see getting out, not attending properly |
| PANTO | Show -- 'Phantom' -- Queen not attending after rift (5) |
| TAKINGNOTICE | Two types of reserve, including chief, not attending |