| GAMETHEORY | Change of heart, my ego providing competitive strategy (4,6) |
| BACHARACH | Composer whose 2013 autobiography is entitled Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music (9) |
| MADONNA | "What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks." She is an American singer who won three Grammys for Ray of Light. |
| DEAL | "Fine, I'll pay you to massage my ego" |
| KYLIEMINOGUE | Once Charlene, unlike my ego, I reformed (5,7) |
| LOWBID | Contractor's competitive strategy |
| CHESS | Competitive strategy game (5) |
| FOREFATHER | Predecessor of retired referee with a change of heart (10) |
| TRANSPLANT | Change of heart to move informer to the other side of the border (10) |
| THERAINBOW | Lawrence wrote this in the East End after a change of heart |
| PROVERBIAL | Well-known demonstrator getting bail after change of heart |
| CONVERSION | Criminal with form having change of heart |
| TENDERLOIN | Brave man has change of heart after painful cut |
| BRIDEGROOM | Partner's change of heart in area for playing cards? |
| CARDIOGRAM | It might show a change of heart? |
| THREESCORE | There's a change of heart at sixty (10) |
| RATHERLATE | Later having a change of heart, perhaps, in it; towards the end (6,4) |
| HENCEFORTH | Has a surprising change of heart and won't include GAA members from now on |
| WEATHEREYE | Having a change of heart, female sheep chasing castrated ram around area shows alert gaze (7,3) |
| COMESROUND | Irregular condom user has a change of heart (5,5) |
