| SHREDDING | First class tries to end up with a grating sound (9) |
| STRIDENCE | First class tries to end up with a grating sound (9) |
| RESIDENT | Tries to end it all by not migrating (8) |
| SCRAPE | An act of raking, rasping or rubbing; a graze; a stroke of a pen or a violin bow; a fiddler; a shave; a barber; a grating sound; a mass razed up by a rabbit; a scuffle; or, a thin spread of butter (6) |
| RASPINGLY | With a grating voice, struggling with lisp, and angry (9) |
| TESTMATCH | See if it will light - hope to end up with ashes? (4,5) |
| TAKEAPART | Assume one stage character and end up with a number of pieces (4,5) |
| LANDAGENT | End up with a bloke, one who collects rents (4,5) |
| IMITATION | Student casts off shackle but ends up with a duplication (9) |
| RASP | A grating sound; a scrape of a door; a coarse file; a mollusc's tongue; or, a berry synonymous with a boo (4) |
| DRAMA | It is a small amount to end up with a play (5) |
| HAGGLED | Tried to end up with a good deal (7) |
| CREEK | ... a small watercourse heard to make a grating sound |
| JAR | A container which will produce a grating sound (3) |
| BARMEAL | A ramble could end up with a dish of pub food (3,4) |
| EAR | A boxer might end up with a cauliflower one |
| RASPS | Makes a grating sound or says gratingly ? (5) |
| RASPING | Snake in loop making a grating sound (7) |
| RASPED | Spread it around that it made a grating sound |
| GRASPED | Understood the key had made a grating sound (7) |
