| READYANDWILLING | Gain land, weirdly knackered but up for it |
| STAGEWIN | Sweating, knackered, but just the result Cavendish wanted (5,3) |
| INADVANCE | Where army hopes to gain land beforehand |
| UNOPENED | Still in bud, but up: no need for it (8) |
| GUMTREE | It may be a koala's habitat, but up in this one's in difficulties (3-4) |
| ATALOW | With nowhere to go but up, as one's spirits |
| TOUCHROCKBOTTOM | Have nowhere to go but up |
| HITBOTTOM | Had nowhere to go but up |
| HITROCKBOTTOM | Have no place to go but up |
| ASBADASBADCANBE | With no way to go but up |
| NADIR | Point from which there's nowhere to go but up |
| ROCKBOTTOM | Place from which there's no way but up (2 wds.) |
| ANIMALISM | The beastly thing slain, I am knackered, heading for Martini (9) |
| GONDOLIER | Punter, old knackered one, invested in knackered horse, perhaps? (9) |
| TARPAULIN | Cover fool returned, saying it's completely knackered (9) |
| TIRED | Attempted to pull one up, getting knackered (5) |
| UPBEAT | Cheerful but knackered when changing positions |
| PAPRIKA | It's hot, and old man has a kip, knackered around mid-afternoon (7) |
| WIND | House virtually collapsing, knackered roofs, one lifted in the breeze (8) |
| OVERRIDING | Principal getting horse knackered? (10) |