| TUDORROSE | Both obligation and woe mostly recalled by English royal symbol |
| ALMANAC | Cry of woe mostly involving fellow's register (7) |
| PAYUP | Meet one's obligations and, by implication, yap (3,2) |
| RELIEVE | Free from obligation and religion, not half, naughty woman! (7) |
| PENALTIES | Write a line on obligations and sanctions (9) |
| LIS | Stories giving away English and French royal symbol (3) |
| LASER | Subsequent transaction mostly recalled, producing a beam (5) |
| GRID | ... mournful one mostly recalled an arrangement of bars |
| PYTHON | Japanese drama character mostly recalled as a crawler |
| CRAB | Type of canon Bach mostly recalled? That's about right (4) |
| ROSBIF | Minor fiction genre, mostly recalled term at Nanterre for Oxonian? |
| SOMBRE | Proverb, mostly recalled, is somewhat humourless |
| BYEBYEBLACKBIRD | "Pack up all my care and woe here I go singing low", they sang in this classic from Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon (3,3,9) |
| ADO | Trouble and woe, in regular instalments (3) |
| TONGUETWISTER | This can bring about stuttering and woe |
| USE | Do drugs lead to untold sadness and woe ultimately? |
| ERIN | "O, ___, mourn with grief and woe": James Joyce |
| MADNESS | Folly and woe with son becoming married (7) |
| HAVEASCREWLOOSE | To be eccentric possibly reveals chaos and woe (4,1,5,5) |
| MAESHOWE | Shame and woe mingled in Orkney stone age site (4,4) |
