| PLOUGHSTAFF | Fail examination and teachers - better put hand to this! |
| ORAL | With regular absences, four fail examination |
| TASKMASTER | Hardworking teacher, better forget; this one's more like a martinet! (10) |
| FREE | One won't have to put hand in pocket to let go (4) |
| ANTE | Better put this in worker's head for ever (4) |
| CAMEINTOMONEY | Inherited by leaders, coroners and medical examiners, and teachers and coppers (4,4,5) |
| WAVE | Put hand up as gesture we hear to surrender (4) |
| ARMHOLE | Space to put hand through in garment (7) |
| SLEEVE | What to put hand through that may have record in it (6) |
| AUDIT | Formal, periodic examination and checking of accounts to verify their correctness |
| AUTOPSY | An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death (7) |
| OZONE | "___ holes, better put up my umbrella!" (B-52's lyric) |
| CURBED | Better put the key inside when it's been checked (6) |
| NEATER | Better put Golden Delicious, or similar, on Newton |
| ENCLOSE | We see the Cockney chook nearby - better put it in a pen (7) |
| FLATCAP | Better put on boring headgear (4,3) |
| LETITGO | One will have to move on as one didn't put hand out for bus (3,2,2) |
| BINGEDRINKING | Tipsy kid beginning to get ratted primarily leads to this! |
| AIRRAID | I heard alert, sir ___ it's necessary to divert to this! (3-4,7) |
| SILENT | Listen to this! A new way to be free of sound! (6) |