| NONPERSON | Breaking news: Spooner -- poor chap -- stripped of his status (3-6) |
| CLASSCONSCIOUS | Aware of his status, it's what teacher prefers! (5-9) |
| EXHAUST | Weary sexy chap stripped - just topless (7) |
| WAVINGBUT | The poor chap's condition in Stevie Smith's famous poem? (3,6,3,8) |
| DIRTCHEAP | Poor chap tried going for almost nothing (4,5) |
| INSURGENT | Rebel ruins poor chap (9) |
| THELATEST | Breaking news: bad athletes here on time! (3,6) |
| STOPPRESS | Station crowd gets breaking news (4,5) |
| SUNDOWNER | Rewind breaking news broadcast over red wine, say (9) |
| MEANSWELL | Tries to help, having left after breaking news during dinner perhaps (5,4) |
| ANCHORMAN | One with breaking news |
| RAT | Renegade filibuster stripped of his external prize (3) |
| FASHIONVICTIM | Slavish shopper stripped of his vitamin C (7,6) |
| NOT | The poor chap's condition in Stevie Smith's famous poem? (3,6,3,8) |
| DROWNING | The poor chap's condition in Stevie Smith's famous poem? (3,6,3,8) |
| BENJOHNSON | Canadian sprinter who was stripped of his 1988 Olympic gold medal for using illegal steroids (3,7) |
| KIM | Philby who was stripped of his OBE |
| JOHNSON | Ben ___: a Canadian sprinter who was stripped of his 1988 Olympics 100m gold after he was disqualified for doping |
| THANE | Macbeth an example? His status can be seen |
| METHANE | Macbeth's query about his status, it would seem, is a gas (7) |
