| DEFAULTER | Failed to fulfil obligation or failed to appear (9) |
| DEFAULTED | Failed to fulfil an obligation (9) |
| NEGLECTED | Failed to fulfil, ... their duties |
| DINING | Activity in restaurant requiring much effort? Artist's failed to appear (6) |
| DEFAULT | Fail to fulfil obligation (7) |
| WELCH | Fail to fulfil obligation |
| BLOWN | Of a fuse, melted or failed |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | Fulfil obligation, as diver would have to with flea in his suit? (4,2,2,7) |
| EXEMPTION | Freedom from an obligation or liability (9) |
| REMINDED | Caused to fulfil an obligation or to take note of something (8) |
| TALLORDER | Demand for giraffes perhaps that is hard to fulfil? |
| MEASUREUP | Bill at college gets to fulfil expectations (7,2) |
| ACTONBELL | A Bronte covertly to fulfil Pavlov's theory? (5,4) |
| EXEMPT | To be free from an obligation or liability, is to be what (6) |
| DEBT | Money or obligation or favour that is owed (4) |
| OUGHT | To be compelled by duty, obligation or desirability |
| ABSOLVE | To acquit clear from blame, sin, punishment, obligation or responsibility |
| DEEDS | Formal legal documents effecting a transfer of property or creating a legal obligation or contract (5) |
| MORAL | Kind of obligation or certainty |
| EXEMPTS | Excuses / frees from obligation or liability |
