| LEADTIME | Detail getting sorted out by this writer produces delay (4,4) |
| TRIALPERIOD | Prior detail getting confused in a testing time? (5,6) |
| DIPSOMANIA | Plastered on vacation, so I'm in AA, getting sorted out for this? (10) |
| OBFUSCATE | Hide significant details of case, but getting sorted out |
| INDEED | In truth I'd need of getting sorted out (6) |
| MIGRAINE | One bit of cereal eaten by writer produces headache (8) |
| SPECIMEN | A sample of spice sorted out by males (8) |
| HANGNAIL | Digital problem in Ghana sorted out by student (8) |
| SCREENED | Was filmed, having been sorted out by tests (8) |
| INNOTIME | Heartlessly omniscient, getting sorted immediately (2,2,4) |
| KERCHIEF | Heck, fire is put out by this cloth |
| SCOTTISH | Caledonian will be put out by this cost (8) |
| RATTIGAN | Writer produces article on Pied Piper's mission, putting name at the end |
| MACULATE | Spotted adult entering a sect gripped by this writer (8) |
| MERCHANT | Trader's harangue about church being led by this writer (8) |
| IDEALISM | Contract is put together, restricted by this writer's impracticality |
| EMINENCE | Thus denied start, stopped by this writer's boss (8) |
| ACRIMONY | A sidekick bored by this writer's bitterness |
| TOMWOLFE | US author produces book about Austrian composer |
| RETARD | Sailor getting stuck into wine produces delay (6) |
