| SATON | Failed to deal with |
| SHERATON | Furniture-maker failed to deal with woman's interior |
| NEGLECTED | Failed to do or attend to (9) |
| ITCH | Failed to start sales technique with desire (4) |
| DISTILLED | Failed to keep calm to be purified |
| PLOUGHEDBACK | Failed to pass with second, and reinvested resources |
| STOODUP | Failed to keep date with (someone) |
| TONYBLAIR | UK PM who, together with George Bush, failed to find those pesky weapons of mass destruction in Iraq |
| FUMBLED | Perhaps failed to catch Facebook exchange to bottom left (7) |
| ASKMERCY | Failed to start job with Grace? Oh please! (3,5) |
| OMITTED | Failed to say I'd motet to compose (7) |
| BAGATELLE | What Gessler failed to do, beginning to eat trifle |
| ELIZABETHTAYLOR | Taking betrothal with zeal, I failed to get a grip on matrimony, ultimately? |
| CAMEACROPPER | Failed to see what happened to Humpty Dumpty, in the sense it was a let down (4,1,7) |
| MIST | Soundly failed to connect, due to poor visibility (4) |
| ALTERED | Amended to 'Walter and Ted failed to start' (7) |
| LOSTCAUSE | Failed to retain principle with hopeless ideal (4,5) |
| NEARTHING | Mean to object, but almost failed to do it (4,5) |
| LAGGEDBEHIND | Failed to keep up with upsetting settlement covering horse that's overdue (6,6) |
| NOSHOW | One's failed to turn up with food -- that hurts! (2-4) |
