| BREADANDBUTTER | Bad debt ran true to form - routine, practical (5-3-6) |
| TYRANT | Restricted liberty ran true for dictator (6) |
| TRUNDLEBED | Debt run led to changes in servant's accommodation |
| RETURN | The journey back runs true to form with the Navy (6) |
| BETSEYTROTWOOD | In bad debt case, wrong and right reversed by court, relative to David |
| BALANCEDBUDGET | Problem with glue can; bad debt but now have no deficit (8,6) |
| NURTURE | Bringing up to run true to form (7) |
| NURTURES | Brings up, runs true to form (8) |
| WRITEOFF | Send a letter to cancel a bad debt (5,3) |
| BITESIZED | Easy to take in one beset by bad debt having imbibed stiffener (4-5) |
| BEDANDBREAKFAST | Ran bad debts up with take, but accommodating business (3,3,9) |
| TOXIC | Like bad debt bullish creature gets in unthinking move? (5) |
| BATED | Such breath as a (bad) debt may be awaited with? (5) |
| BEDTIME | Bad debt Magnus is last to settle, at the end of the day (7) |
| ABATED | Reduced one bad debt, hiding another one (6) |
| HELLTOPAY | Trouble over a really bad debt? (4,2,3) |
| NATURE | Character of sodium runs true (6) |
| BEDPOST | Support for the retired in bad debt - overturned steep charges (7) |
| CURIOUS | Dying to know why retiring old police force incurs bad debts (7) |
| BEDSIT | Bad debts swamp one lodging here? (6) |
