| BERYL | At the end of October, yell out for a gemstone |
| BOO | Late October yell |
| LYLE | Yell out for The Carol Burnett Show actor Mr Waggoner (4) |
| JELLYBEAN | Not over one jab, yell out for sugar-coated treat (5,4) |
| NOVEL | Book at the end of October for the Spanish (5) |
| JANITOR | Caretaker from the beginning of the year to the end of October (7) |
| SETTING | Mounting for a gemstone; or, the cutlery, crockery, glassware etc laid for a single place at a table (7) |
| SQUALOR | Between the start and the end of October, the Queen's Head in Saul was refurbished, to sort out its grubbiness (7) |
| PUMPKIN | Ask the Family - it's shown at the end of October |
| HOLSTER | Case for a gun to blast hostel by the end of October (7) |
| BERATED | Scolded for changing a date to the end of October |
| PRIORITY | Sympathy for suffering around Brazilian city at the end of October gets precedence (8) |
| CANALBARGE | Fussy in rejecting, say by the end of October, the essentials of transport (5,5) |
| HALLOWEEN | Hotel to permit central screening at the end of October (9) |
| PUTTHECLOCKBACK | Regress, as the UK does towards the end of October |
| MONSTERMASH | #1 song at the end of October in 1962 |
| EMILYBRONTE | Sister of Anne Boleyn I met roughly around the end of October |
| TRICKORTREAT | Proposition made at the end of October (5,2,5) |
| SCORPIO | Zodiac sign for the end of October (7) |
| DISTRICTNURSE | The care-giver is instructed wrongly to appear about the end of October (8,5) |