| BARNACLE | Clear ban broken by a persistent person (8) |
| STICKER | A bit of advertising for a persistent person (7) |
| BANGLE | Ban broken leg having jewellery (6) |
| DIABETES | Expires, broken by a gamble and disease (8) |
| SEASONAL | E.g. Christmas fastener broken by a young relative (8) |
| FEATHERS | Fight a persistent battle, getting furious (8,8) |
| SPITTING | Fight a persistent battle, getting furious (8,8) |
| PREGNANT | & 24 Deep silence broken by a baby's cry? (8,5) |
| ROADRACE | A record somehow broken by a cycling competition (4,4) |
| DOGGEDLY | In a persistent manner (8) |
| PAGANINI | Italian bread broken by a key violinist once |
| SATURDAY | Robust, but twice broken by a night of fever? |
| BACKACHE | What is a persistent pain in the lumbar region (8) |
| OSTINATO | A persistent musical phrase or rhythm (8) |
| HANGERON | A persistent (and annoying) acolyte (6-2) |
| LONGTERM | What a persistent fraudster might get far in the future? (4-4) |
| TERRIER | Persistent person, having row, about to make a mistake |
| SALUT | Word for a crack of a ship broken by a rock first, later a lengthways divide, slash or slit of a banana, cream bun, curtain, plank or anything else (5) |
| BULLDOG | stubbornly persistent person |
| STAYER | Persistent person |
