| ALOG | Declining to take a record is that easy (7,3,1,3) |
| FALLINGOFF | Declining to take a record is that easy (7,3,1,3) |
| ONEHITWONDER | The meteorite that did it for the dinosaurs - for the record, is that why we never heard from them again? (3-3,6) |
| KEEPADIARY | Don't sell The Daily Record - is that what The Observer will do with The Daily News? (4,1,5) |
| ABSTENTION | Policy of declining to take part in a vote (10) |
| REFUSAL | Act of declining to take or accept something |
| WARNING | Declining to take on leading role, showing caution (7) |
| ABBREVIATING | Cutting short and declining to take in British parson with heart of flint (12) |
| BESIDE | Sounds like something you'd listen to on a record is close to Elbow? (6) |
| ROLL | A record is made to spin |
| ANALOGOUS | A sense about a record is comparable (9) |
| GENEALOGIST | A record is kept by French author who may explore a particular line (11) |
| ALPHAS | A record is entertaining, getting top marks |
| NOTING | Making a record is worthless without initial hearing (6) |
| APOLOGISE | Express regret a record is kept by US writer (9) |
| SHEEPISH | The woman with a record is hot and embarrassed (8) |
| AMI | 1960 Debbie Reynolds hit "___ That Easy to Forget" |
| ASIF | I doubt that easy life is without limits (2,2) |
| ENGELBERT | He ensured he wasn't that easy to forget by taking the stage name adopted from an Austrian classical |
| WERE | "If only it ___ that easy ..." |
