| FLYOFFTHEHANDLE | Get cross having to rush away before the opener (3,3,3,6) |
| DYSLEXICS | Cissy & Del get cross having reading (9) |
| TEARGAS | To rush away; hurry (4,3) |
| TEAROFF | Attention-grabbing aristo to rush away |
| CAREERIST | Businessman having to rush to get first |
| HAREBELL | Having to rush, scientist makes bloomer |
| NEEDIER | More poor to be born and pass away before the first of the rich (7) |
| OFFERED | Volunteered to take away before the day (7) |
| TRAPDOOR | Rejected role, cross, having to go up a hole leading to the stage (4,4) |
| PUTREFIED | Placed on fire right away before the wound finally festered (9) |
| SHERWOOD | Girl gets cross, having to go round wide forest |
| TRAVERSE | Cross, having to take back pictures and poetry |
| ALEXANDER | Great man cross having to enter ace rowing club (9) |
| THORAX | God cross having to secure a chest |
| ELOPE | Run away before the match? |
| SWOONS | Faints when the boys admit the couple lose the opener (6) |
| LOOKRIGHT | Prepare to cross, having the correct appearance (4,5) |
| BEATARETREAT | Rush away to dine, tucking into simple, delicious morsel? |
| LEGITIMATE | It's OK to run away before I get married (10) |
| TICKLER | He makes you laugh when the nit-picker loses the opener (7) |
