| GETTHERUNAROUND | Go from Billy to Jack in desperation to do the deal for small car (3,3,9) |
| ADELAIDE | The assistant admits shaping the deal for the Australian city (8) |
| RENEGOTIATE | Do the deal again |
| PICKUPTRUCK | Select leading deal for small van (4,2,5) |
| CRADLE | Creditor amended deal for small bed (6) |
| KID | Billy-to-be, perhaps |
| GOATEES | Billy to see manicured beards (7) |
| CRYSTAL | Comedian Billy to cry over Saint Al (7) |
| SCRAPETHEBARREL | Get rid of beer! Lather about act to use the end of it in desperation? (6,3,6) |
| TURNTHETIDE | Hint, uttered in desperation, to reverse the trend (4,3,4) |
| NAG | Continuously urge, like Vera Duckworth used to do to Jack in Coronation Street! (3) |
| CROWNJEWELS | One flying straight to jack in posts which are held in the Tower of London |
| CABINETMINISTER | This Conservative in Britain meets in desperation? |
| SANTASUIT | DAYS'S JENNIFER PROPOSED TO JACK IN THIS IN 2003 (two words) |
| AWINGANDAPRAYER | Things relied on in desperation |
| GRASPATSTRAWS | Resort in desperation to inadequate remedy (5,2,6) |
| CLUTCHINGATSTRAWS | Resorting in desperation to utterly inadequate remedies (9,2,6) |
| CLUTCHATSTRAWS | Resort in desperation to inadequate remedies (6,2,6) |
| CABINFEVER | Potholer cut by scrap iron in desperation to get out |
| BERIBERI | Sounds like a desperation to put it in the ground without vitamin B (8) |
