| KEEPONTRYING | Don't give up working as a judge |
| ARBITRATOR | Bar traitor from working as a judge (10) |
| RESIGN | Give up working rule to accommodate first of students |
| ENSIGN | Flag and give up working about noon, showing no resistance |
| RETIRE | Right time in Ireland to give up working (6) |
| BRUNOTONIOLI | Choreographer who replaced David Walliams as a judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2023 (5,7) |
| PENSIONEDOFF | Forced to give up working, from the opening of 14 across to closing time, before going to two different parties (9,3) |
| RETIRES | Gives up working for good and goes to bed (7) |
| POSH | Spice Girl who claimed that she grew up working-class (her father drove a Rolls-Royce when she was a child) |
| ACADEMICS | Fellows who are up working a dice scam (9) |
| ABILITY | One fired up working in a handy craft (7) |
| RITAORA | Kosovo-born singer who served as a judge on The X Factor and The Masked Singer as well as a coach on "The Voice" (4,3) |
| AFISHOUTOFWATER | One in an unfamiliar environment moves off without a reason giving up working (1,4,3,2,5) |
| PURITAN | Train up, working for prude (7) |
| EDISON | Team up, working for inventor |
| IMPRISON | Send down naughty child - teacher's up, working |
| OPULENT | No let-up working if you want to get rich |
| RETIRED | Gave up working and went to bed (7) |
| CHEESEDOFF | Fed up working in the dairy? (7,3) |
| ENSHROUD | Wrap up working hours in the finish (8) |
