| RATBAG | Creep removes both names from rave report (6) |
| AVERTS | Turns from rave about poet Eliot (6) |
| PROSPERO | Magician's power shortening both names of one-time presidential candidate (8) |
| DEVIL | What Beelzebub and The Tempter are both names for |
| YULELOG | Poor young Nell dropped both names (4,3) |
| RANT | Hurried to junction from rave (4) |
| BARBITONE | Sedative lawyers munched on, back from rave |
| UNTAGS | Removes names from pictures, on some social media platforms |
| VIENNA | Struggle with a couple of names from the East in EU capital (6) |
| GOLDILOCKSBEARS | Two names from the "Who's been eating my porridge?" argument |
| BILLYCONNOLLY | Account at end of day casually concealing names from comic (5,8) |
| LATER | Afterwards, removing names from lamp (5) |
| SWAHILI | Source of many names from "The Lion King " |
| RUSSIAN | Two names from eastern Europe (7) |
| OAR | Remove both ends of board to make paddle (3) |
| HEALTHIER | Fitter needs wherewithal when struggling to remove both weights (9) |
| ABLE | Having power to remove both ends of slab (4) |
| HELIUM | It was discovered by observing spectral lines from the Sun, so it derives its name from the Greek sun god (6) |
| CORNET | Brass instrument whose name, from the Latin for "horn", refers to the substance from which it was originally made; or, a funnel-shaped thing, such as a cream horn or a gelato wafer (6) |
| MEANIE | Sporting name from Ireland is a small-minded person locally (6) |