| SLANDEROUS | Donal's sure a write-up is defamatory (10) |
| LIBELLOUS | Instrument Louis is about to hold is defamatory (9) |
| FLANDERS | Fighter shunning society is defamatory about battle site (8) |
| EASTBOURNE | Resort northern? To be sure, a southern resort (10) |
| ASCERTAINS | Even when one's quite sure, a top surveyor checks it out (10) |
| REVIEW | Do a write-up of a comedy show, say (6) |
| REPLANTED | After a write-up, stop screening programme - put to bed again? |
| NADIR | She abandons playwright after a write-up, an all-time low (5) |
| DEED | What you did that got a write-up, too (4) |
| SMARTIE | Chocolate sweet that merits a write-up? (7) |
| MAKEAREPORT | Poet to earmark material in order to do a write-up (4,1,6) |
| PISA | Part of write-up is about a city in Tuscany (4) |
| DRAB | Shakespeare's write-up is uninteresting (4) |
| INEPT | The thing around write-up is unprofessional (5) |
| CAR | In a crack-up, maybe a write-off (3) |
| AFISHOUTOFWATER | Shout, 'A write-off.' A sort of victim of a totally unfamiliar environment (1,4,3,2,5) |
| BADDEBT | As per Spooner, father's wager is a write-off (3,4) |
| WISTERIA | Plant is a write-off (8) |
| GLOSS | Paint, a gallon a write-off |
| REDINK | It may be used to write down a write-off |
