| PENALTYSHOOTOUT | Drive away solicitor after fine - it resolves a stalemate |
| SHOOTOUT | Drive away solicitor in gunfight |
| SHOOTOUTS | Series of penalties drive away solicitors (5-4) |
| SETTLEMENT | It resolves difficulties in an isolated village (10) |
| PRISM | Is in concert, nothing less: it resolves light into colours (5) |
| FINITE | How fine it is but it has an end to it, you know! |
| MUFTI | Legal officer's bungle overlooking a fine, it arises |
| DEUSEXMACHINA | Device in movies whereby a sudden intervention resolves a plotline (4,2,7) |
| MAKESUP | Fabricates a story and resolves a disagreement (5,2) |
| REMATCH | Is about to join a contest, after a stalemate last time (7) |
| HITOUT | Solicitor, after greeting, launched a verbal attack (3,3) |
| ILIED | 'Fine, it wasn't true' |
| PARSES | Resolves (a phrase) into grammatical elements |
| IRONSOUT | Resolves a problem (2 wds.) |
| EDITS | Resolves a tense problem, say |
| ESTONIAN | One from the Baltics resolves a tension (8) |
| NIGHT | Brighton fine, it turns out, for annual celebration (7,5) |
| BONFIRE | Brighton fine, it turns out, for annual celebration (7,5) |
| STYMIE | We finish after misty change put in a stalemate |
| NOWINSITUATION | Catch-22, it's a stalemate (2-3,9) |
