| PENSIONEDOFF | Forced to retire as 14 across is starting and energy coming from party is very loud (9,3) |
| PUTOUTTOGRASS | Made to retire, as disturbed informer might be? |
| TAXITOTHERUNWAY | Ack! The show is starting and they still need a... |
| DAVISCUP | Party is very first about increase in tennis championship (5,3) |
| SOLAR | Produced by or energy coming from the sun |
| PEP | Energy coming from exercising quietly |
| EARSPLITTING | What the corn mill is doing perhaps is very loud |
| PUTOUTTOSTUD | Retire as a sire for hire |
| DEADLYPOISON | From the start, 14 across is only divided in two with arsenic, as it kills all known germs (6,6) |
| ANSBRO | Joe ___, Scotland and London Irish rugby union centre forced to retire through injury in 2013 (6) |
| PUTOUTTOPASTURE | Defeated chief US rate badly is forced to retire (3,3,2,7) |
| PIFFLE | Greek letter is very loud to the French. What a load of rubbish! (6) |
| HUFF | Husband you heard is very loud and in bad mood (4) |
| BREAKINGGROUND | Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each |
| STAYUP | Don't retire, as those who keep from relegation do (4,2) |
| SIXOFONEANDHALF | 12 as 14 or 12 as 10? (3,2,3,3,4,1,5,2,3,5) |
| ADOZENOF | 12 as 14 or 12 as 10? (3,2,3,3,4,1,5,2,3,5) |
| SUNDAYDRIVER | Slow coach at start of 14 across is first off the tee (6,6) |
| GOTOSLEEP | Retire, as it's too bad with endless driving hazard in Grand Prix (2,2,5) |
| NATAL | Worker forced to retire the French of labour (5) |
