| ABBREVIATE | Contract to summarise |
| RECAP | To summarise, one has the right to break step (5) |
| INAWORD | To summarise very briefly (2,1,4) |
| PACER | Speed-setter to summarise return |
| ALLTOLD | To summarise, nothing was irrelevant |
| ABRIDGE | Type of blood bank, to summarise |
| CONDENSE | Stupid prisoner starts to summarise (8) |
| INALL | To summarise, finally both sides lost (2,3) |
| SONNET | Figure with negative response beginning to summarise backward poetic composition (6) |
| NUTSHELL | A hard case in which to summarise (8) |
| EPITOME | To summarise it, write a poem about a tie |
| INSHORT | To summarise, chain store's case has been dismissed, unexpectedly |
| GOINGUNDER | Failing to summarise The Price Is Right's aim? (5,5) |
| TEMPLE | Whose studio refused to let her out of her contract to star in The Wizard of Oz, the role going to Judy Garland? (7,6) |
| SHIRLEY | Whose studio refused to let her out of her contract to star in The Wizard of Oz, the role going to Judy Garland? (7,6) |
| SHORTEN | Get contract to build a bridge to dock (7) |
| DUPLICATEBRIDGE | Alternative to contract to make another crossing? (9,6) |
| BETROTH | Bewildered Bertha to lose a contract to marry (7) |
| TENANT | One has to observe contract to the letter (6) |
| COMMIT | Contract to do something; devote one's time to a cause (6) |