| UNINFORMATIVE | Four in Vietnam lost with no useful guidance (13) |
| STOLON | Shoot from plant base could be lost with no upturn (6) |
| NONPRODUCTIVE | Having no useful outcome (13) |
| COMETONOTHING | Have no useful result (4,2,7) |
| MISMANAGEMENT | Millions men lost with magnate is poor organisation |
| OTIOSE | Old sailor in game serving no useful purpose (6) |
| CURTAIL | Curtis is lost with Ali, lost in dock (7) |
| ORNAMENT | It serves no useful purpose |
| INVAIN | Heard where blood flows to no useful purpose (2,4) |
| POINTLESS | Such a pencil serves no useful purpose (9) |
| USELESS | Serving no useful purpose (7) |
| TWINGE | The heart being lost with side in pain (6) |
| OCELOT | In addition, upset over Clare getting lost with wild cat (6) |
| CAMEL | Became lost with the animal in the dry spaces |
| PHENOL | Catastrophe? No love lost with the carbolic acid (6) |
| STRUCTURE | Initially, thousands uncaringly sunk in fortune lost with cards (15 25, as 2 and 8 discovered) (9,2, |
| HOPIT | Get lost with surprise at coal mine (3,2) |
| VANISH | Get lost with redhead required for Japan, for one (6) |
| VIOL | 5/1 nothing lost with old Stringer (4) |
| BATTLESROYAL | Fierce fights lost with betrayal, unfortunately (7,5) |
