| VARNISH | Glossy veneer is to fade about end of summer (7) |
| UNDERTHEROSE | Privately rented house renovated about end of summer |
| FACADE | Appearance to fade about a century |
| RECONVENE | Again gather you do, when the surface veneer is damaged (9) |
| UNEVEN | Slight misfortune veneer is one-sided (6) |
| ATROPHY | One with top prize is to fade away (7) |
| AUGUSTA | End of summer, start of autumn, in Georgian city (7) |
| INFRACT | Break actually is around end of summer (7) |
| INERROR | Renoir worried about the end of summer - is that wrong? (2,5) |
| GUANACO | One of their relatives has the hump turning up old recycling item at the end of summer (7) |
| EXCERPT | Around end of summer save a bit (7) |
| WEATHER | Meteorological conditions we hate, possibly, before end of summer (7) |
| OLIVIER | Actor takes fruit around island at the end of summer (7) |
| SIZZLER | Hiss! At the end of summer, a scorcher (7) |
| STEWARD | Caretaker sadly wasted around end of summer (7) |
| CRANHAM | Actor Kenneth from Dunfermline might tin meat around the end of summer (7) |
| PILCHER | Cornish-born author who wrote for Mills and Boon as "Jane Fraser" before writing, under her own name, novels including The End of Summer and her popular The Shell Seekers (7) |
| UPRIVER | Tony clipped hedge before end of summer, bucking current trend |
| CACKLED | Sizzled, missing end of summer, and laughed |
| ATELIER | Studio area, elite, revamped at end of summer |
