| DAMPSQUIBS | Checks digestive issue - without question these things are a let-down (4,6) |
| STOMACHACHES | Digestive issues wrecked a chess match when eating bagel (7,5) |
| QADI | Question these days one Muslim official (4) |
| LAMPSHADES | The foreign politician in London is finally connected to the Underworld - these things are usually b |
| OUTOFCOURT | Resolve the issue without judgement (6,3,2,5) |
| WEEKENDING | Taking short break that's ultimately a let-down to relate (10) |
| ANTICLIMAX | Coming out badly in tax claim is a let-down |
| DRAWBRIDGE | This admission to castle is a let-down (10) |
| GIVEITTIME | "These things don't happen at the snap of a finger" |
| CLIPBOARDS | Trim executives feature in these things covered by papers? (10) |
| PIFFLE | ... and only two farthings in a fortune: "These things are as ___ in the wind" (6) |
| AGENDAS | A note to finish when these things are discussed (7) |
| CROSSWORDS | Angry exchange in these things (10) |
| GOOD | *"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is ____." |
| OLIVES | These things are the pits (and their surrounding fruit) |
| ACTSOFGOD | Decrees "old" Fine Gael party backwards; these things are out of our control |
| TRY | These things are sent to ___ us (3) |
| ASITIS | The way things are, a sibling controls city centre (2,2,2) |
| HERBS | Flavoursome things are a woman's, holding breath initially (5) |
| BEING | As things are, a mere existence |
