| DUEDILIGENCE | Degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or is legally required (3,9) |
| DILIGENCE | Legal concept pertaining to the degree of care that should be exercised, due ... |
| LIKELY | To be reasonably expected |
| ACAUTIONARYTALE | A degree of care should be taken with this fairytale if disregarded - let that be a warning |
| IRISH | Like some setters to be reasonably good - first two are dropped |
| ACRES | The sort of cares that may burden landed folk |
| ASKED | "My brave fellows," George Washington said to his troops in December 1776, "you have done all I ___ you to do, and more than can be reasonably expected" -- and then he exhorted them to reenlist |
| SPEECH | Can't it be reasonably expected from a dumb blonde? (6) |
| OPERATIONCODE | In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performed |
| ISOLDE | Operatic heroine that is to be about to be liquidated (6) |
| CASHIERING | Getting rid of money that is to be given to gang |
| CAKE | The entirety of something that is to be shared or divided |
| HEIRESS | A woman who is legally entitled to the property or rank of another upon their death (7) |
| OVERKILL | In gross excess of what is reasonably expected (8) |
| HAVEALIEIN | Peter of the FO eating meat that is to be unlike the lark(4,1,3,2) |
| OCARINA | Wilde hasn't succeeded in opening of act that is to be played |
| REGRETTABLE | Better lager may be brewed, but that is to be rued (11) |
| ENSILAGE | Storing food that is to be given to angels (8) |
| PARASITE | A strap that is to be given to the bludger (8) |
| READTHERIOTACT | Care that editor is forced to deliver stern warning |
