| MISPRINTS | Errors from backer not ending in tears |
| SPONSOR | Sister receiving new spoon from backer (7) |
| THECARETAKER | Theatre backer, not bold, abandoned play (3,9) |
| SINGULAR | Curious, not ending in an S (8) |
| RECONQUER | Professor's last economic question not ending in defeat again (9) |
| MORATORIUM | Choral work not ending in silence is something suggesting later discussion |
| YEA | All months not ending in R? Agreed |
| CALICO | Material girl not ending in company (6) |
| SACHETS | Bags of pain in street ending in tears (7) |
| EGOTRIPS | Starting with energy, ending in tears, suffered in vanity projects |
| SVENGALI | Influential villain ending in tears, leaving broken |
| OPTS | Chooses work beginning and ending in tears (4) |
| SPIRALS | Tsar content with novel's ending in tears about twists |
| SWEPT | Ending in tears, blubbered and moved swiftly on (5) |
| HEAVENS | My great joy ending in tears (7) |
| DAYS | Too soon to say parliamentary motion's ending in tears (5,4) |
| EARLY | Too soon to say parliamentary motion's ending in tears (5,4) |
| DEBUG | Remove errors from bad undergraduates, initially, in degree |
| ROMP | Fun in European capital not ending quietly |
| UNCEASING | Theatre ultimately invested in opening, not ending (9) |
