| TAKEINHAND | Assume responsibility for fool employee (4,2,4) |
| INCURCOSTS | Assume responsibility for Bill's fashionable dog and expenses (5,5) |
| TAKECHARGE | Assume responsibility and accept payment (4,6) |
| TAKEON | Assume responsibility for |
| SHOULDER | Assume responsibility for |
| OWN | Assume responsibility for |
| OWNIT | Assume responsibility for something |
| UNDERTAKE | Assume responsibility for (a project) (9) |
| TAKETHEMANTLEOF | Assume responsibility for |
| TAKEOFF | Assume responsibility for ... testing, testing ... forget it, try this clue: Become very popular |
| TAKESTHECONN | Assumes responsibility for steering a ship |
| HARASSMENT | Persecution for fool in injury department of hospital |
| TAKEOVER | Assume responsibility and head for safety, avoiding cold |
| TAKEUPTHEMANTLE | Assume responsibility |
| HOLDDOWNTHEFORT | Assume responsibility (4,4,3,4) |
| GOOSEGOG | Dialect for a fruit used for fool (8) |
| GONZO | From Italian for "fool" and Spanish for "bumpkin, goose", word meaning "absurd, bizarre, crazy" that is used in reference to journalism of an eccentric, exaggerated or subjective nature (5) |
| PASS | University mark parking for fool (4) |
| OAF | Cut heel off bread for fool (3) |
| COMMON | Normal for fool entertaining miserable mother (6) |
