| MILLENNIUM | Badly suffering ennui in the year when this bug was supposed to strike |
| BUS | Ready to roll: It's the time of year when this long, yellow vehicle takes kids back to school |
| ALLERGIC | Grace ill, badly suffering from a reaction (8) |
| SHAPELESS | She lapses badly, suffering from lack of form |
| BOREDOM | There may be ennui in the bedroom (7) |
| ASHE | He was still a lieutenant in the US army in the year when he won both the US amateur title and the U |
| CUBIT | The length of the ancient unit of measurement was supposed to be the distance from the elbow to the |
| SOLSTICE | Name either of the two times in the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator (8) |
| ADIDES | You say Rex, a leading thespian from St Audries, messed up the lines he was supposed to deliver directly to the audience? (6) |
| DOPEY | Who was supposed to be the most stupid of the seven dwarfs (5) |
| MEANT | I object to worker - it was what it was supposed to be (5) |
| ICEPICK | Weapon with which revolutionary Leon Trotsky was supposed to have been murdered (in fact, a cut-down axe was used) (3,4) |
| FORTMYERS | Florida city where a six-year-old New York boy was supposed to fly and be picked up by his family; Spirit Airlines got mixed up and accidentally sent him to Orlando |
| ITI | "What was ___ _ was supposed to get again?" (Can you remind me of what you needed at the store?) |
| ARCHIMEDES | Greek mathematician and inventor (he was supposed to have cried Eureka! in his bath, having worked o |
| SERPENT | Mythological monster which was supposed to coil around and crush vessels braving deep waters, the se |
| HOURHOURHOURTOUR | What the S.S. Minnow was supposed to take |
| SHAQ | ___ Qureshi, was supposed to have married Nadira Valli in Hollyoaks (4) |
| HOE | Level hilltop in Plymouth, England, where Drake was supposed to have played bowls (3) |
| NERO | The Roman emperor who was supposed to have been fiddling while Rome burned |
