| NITPICKER | Fusspot flipped can, and cream emptied easier (3-6) |
| EXPEDIENT | Old fusspot forgetting answer -- that is coming in handy (9) |
| FULLSTOPS | Two learners, kept in detention by fusspot, mucked up for periods (4,5) |
| WORRYWART | Nervous wreck, fusspot (9) |
| STICKLERS | Fusspots put the French rebels outside |
| CONTAINER | It has "can" and "tin" inside |
| MODALVERB | Eg, each one of these could. May should. Will can and must. |
| LANDSCAPE | Sort of gardener left can and spade out (9) |
| GRIEVANCE | Be very sorry about the damaged can and the complaint (9) |
| CANNONADE | Hostile fire one can and does get involved in |
| WHITEHEAT | 1949 crime film starring James Can and Virginia Mayo |
| ABSTINENT | Away, clutching can, and sober (9) |
| MUTUALAID | Practice that Benjamin Shepard defined as "people giving what they can and getting what they need" |
| PEDANT | Finicky fusspot (6) |
| STICKLER | From "referee, umpire", word for one who is punctiliously and scrupulously insistent, aka a fusspot, pedant or purist; or, a puzzle/problem (8) |
| ADOPT | Assume fusspot overlooking nothing (5) |
| DESSERTSPOONFUL | Rene's old fusspot, pouring out measure of liquid in kitchen (15) |
| DRAMAQUEEN | Cleopatra was such a fusspot! (5,5) |
| NIGGLER | Horse stuck in water near start of race is Fusspot (7) |
| PRECISIANIST | Fusspot cries out, interrupting someone at the keyboard |
