| GOBELLYUP | Fail completely to perform backstroke perhaps (2,5,2) |
| NOWHERE | We fail completely to get here fast |
| FALLFLAT | Fail completely to produce the intended effect (4,4) |
| SWAMP | Did the backstroke, perhaps, to finish up in bog (5) |
| SWIMS | Does the backstroke, perhaps |
| SWAM | Did the backstroke perhaps |
| ALLTHEWAY | Completely; to the end (3,3,3) |
| FALLSFLAT | Comes down level, maybe, but fails completely. (5,4) |
| COMEACROPPER | Happen on area with harvester, to fail completely |
| GOTOPOT | Come to the snooker table and fail completely (2,2,3) |
| TANK | Armoured vehicle gets to fail completely (4) |
| AUSCULTATION | Listening to internal murmurs, one American religious group shifted almost completely to Iona (12) |
| THREWANDTHREW | Completely, to a pitcher? |
| STRUCKHOME | Understood completely to stop first vehicle at digs (6,4) |
| HOLYSEE | Said completely to understand Pope's position |
| UNDIVERSIFIED | Devoted completely to one object |
| QUITE | Completely - to some extent (5) |
| GIVESUP | Renounces and devotes oneself completely to (5,2) |
| DISAGREE | Deputy head is an environmentalist almost completely to show opposition (8) |
| INTOTO | Completely, to Caesar |
