| LOOKDOWNON | Despise study by sad old nationalist (4,4,2) |
| BLACKSHIRT | Old nationalist boycotts strike, run internally |
| NOETIC | Refer to old nationalist revolutionary as intellectual |
| SUNDAYBEST | Suit in church perhaps moved by sad tunes (6,4) |
| LASTRESORT | Sad old starlets drinking last of liquor - no other option |
| BLUEENSIGN | Sad old officer had the flag (4,6) |
| REPOUSSOIR | As is held by sad superior figure in foreground, drawing one's eye into the picture (10) |
| ASHBLONDES | Dors and Monroe, say, sad old has-beens, energy sapped (3,7) |
| THREADBARE | Old article covering study by lawyers (10) |
| DREADLOCKS | Hairstyle study by student in craft centre? (10) |
| LAYREADERS | Courses involving study by those undertaking ecclesiastical duties (3,7) |
| CONGENITAL | Study by Galen vigorously maintaining it's present at birth (10) |
| SCANDALISE | Quick study by department on the greatest business enterprise ends in disgust (10) |
| DOWNCAST | Depressed by sad actors (8) |
| DEMANDS | Orders from duke followed by sad men suffering (7) |
| CRESSIDA | Trojan lover moved by sad cries |
| BODYBLOW | Person upset by sad and severe setback (4,4) |
| MANPOWER | Force of soldiers, number unknown, encapsulated by sad war poem (8) |
| ELEGANTLY | Worker from central Ireland consumed by sad poem left gracefully (9) |
| STARED | Looked at tears made to flow by sad ending (6) |