| TONOAVAIL | Century by India's tailender in Oval, one sadly having little effect (2,2,5) |
| CANCELLED | Called off dance, sadly having little room inside |
| MILD | Doctor swallows contents of pill having little effect |
| UNMOVING | Still having little effect on the emotions (8) |
| DUMP | Drop Queensland's tailender in front of sports official? (4) |
| FLOG | Beat the tailender in a peasouper (4) |
| MUSICCASE | Miss a cue, sadly, having stored concert's opening score in here? (5,4) |
| IMPASSIVE | See me as spiv, one sadly lacking emotion (9) |
| LOWIMPACT | Left before old weakling gets to do something with little effect |
| VENERABLE | Never, sadly, having capacity to be like Bede! |
| CLIMBEDUP | Cub limped sadly having done what it wanted to do with tree (7,2) |
| WORSELUCK | Sadly, having fewer smiles from Dame Fortune (5,4) |
| BOLLYWOOD | "1,691": the number of movies produced in 2021 by India's film industry, known as this |
| MARCOPOLO | Famous traveller returned sheep to policeman, left in ovals (5,4) |
| POLITICAL | One Capitol tailender may be to do with government (9) |
| REARGUARD | Bring up sentry as protection for tailender (9) |
| FORENOON | No one sadly in favour of starting in the morning (8) |
| WEEWEE | Tiny little effect of having 6Dn (3-3) |
| CASTLESINSPAIN | Couple run away in tennis class, sadly having unrealistic hopes |
| RASHLY | Artist heads off sadly having left you in ill-considered way (6) |
