| POLES | Foreigners from the ends of the earth (5) |
| COCKNEYS | Over-confident about point-to-point to small group of foreigners from The City (8) |
| POLAR | From the ends of the earth (5) |
| SLABS | Flagstones; heavy tops of tables; pieces sawn from the ends of logs; or, in Australia, packs of beer (5) |
| NECKS | Guitar parts from the ends of John Prine acoustic folk songs (5) |
| DANES | Foreigners from Sedan? (5) |
| TRIAL | Material from the end of the last testament (5) |
| ELOPE | Run away from end of the earth, returning with energy (5) |
| TRIMS | Snips just a little from the ends at a hair salon |
| ENTER | What's the key to getting from the end of a line to the start? |
| AFTER | Following on from the end of draft, with little hesitation (5) |
| STOLI | Vodka brand that officially lopped off the "-chnaya" from the end of its name |
| SKEWS | Will take editor off newsdesk from the end of Autumn, perhaps due to biases? |
| TUNIS | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| APOCOPE | (GKN) Omission of sounds or letters from the ends of words, as when 'doctor' becomes 'doc' or 'cup of' becomes 'cuppa' (7) |
| NEWS | What you might get from the ends of this puzzle's six longest answers |
| GOLDING | Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who wrote Lord of the Flies and the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (7) |
| IRONCURTAIN | Physical and ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc and Western Europe from the end of WWII until the 1991 end of the Cold War (4,7) |
| EARLYMODERN | Designating the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages to around 1750 (5,6) |
| NORTHPOLE | One of two ends of the earth's axis (5,4) |
