| PANTOMIMEHORSE | Christmas double act is long over: him and me sore to be sacked |
| TUBTHUMPER | Vociferous supporter expressing doubt over he and Trump running (3-7) |
| DODO | Double act is an old-fashioned sort (4) |
| CONGLOMERATE | Business group needing a long-term CEO to be sacked (12) |
| IMITATORS | Plagiarists? Setter has to catch everyone about to be sacked from the cast (9) |
| NOW | Be reliably informed head's to be sacked immediately |
| TYPIST | Office worker is pretty stupid, about to be sacked (6) |
| AGGRIEVE | Torture comes from hostile guards; to be sacked and swap positions of two characters (8) |
| LABOHEME | This ends with he and me, but there's me and me in it, by the sound of it (2,6) |
| WETHREEKINGS | Carol, you, him and me going to college (2,5,5) |
| HEINOUS | Or "We? No, him and me"? This is very wrong (7) |
| PLEASEDOVISITUS | Visualises depot but please come to see him and me (6,2,5,2) |
| TAKENONOTICE | Fail to attend, but refuse to be sacked? |
| HIGHPOINT | Hoping to be sacked during strike's climax (4,5) |
| MOPEAROUND | Hang about miserably with poor man due to be sacked (4,6) |
| BATTER | Club's energy supplier last to be sacked (6) |
| NURSE | NHS staffer in north sure to be sacked (5) |
| ALTO | Singer, in key or right to be sacked? (4) |
| TRANSALPINE | Managed to stop finally looking back, long over the hill? |
| NOMINEE | One running pit - one about to be sacked |
