| TEMPTING | Attractive Scot finally stops working as locum |
| FILLINGIN | Announcement of successful treatment by dentist working as locum? |
| SALESPERSON | Unreliable spear carrying fellow finally stops working in rep |
| YANKS | UK less united after no vote returned by Scots finally (5) |
| SONSIE | Healthily attractive (Scot.) |
| WEELASS | Attractive Scot makes no sense by law. (5,3,4) |
| BONNY | Attractive Scot makes no sense by law. (5,3,4) |
| STRIKER | He stops working as a footballer (7) |
| SEIZESUP | Suddenly stops working, as an engine |
| DIES | Stops working as a battery |
| DISBANDS | Stops working as a group (8) |
| CRASHES | Stops working, as a computer |
| LIEUTENANT | Word for "placeholder" which translates in Latin as "locum tenens"; or, an officer, such as the one washed ashore in a novel by John Fowles (10) |
| STOODIN | Took over, as locum also departs in error (5,2) |
| FILLEDIN | Dealt with the forms when one acted as locum (6,2) |
| FILLINGTHEGAP | Acting as locum doing some dental work (7,3,3) |
| GODEAD | Stop working, as a car battery |
| TITIAN | Nutrition expert refuses to stop working as artist (6) |
| DIE | Stop working, as batteries |
| SEIZEUP | Stop working, as an engine |
