| DEADASADOORNAIL | Gone, and never to return |
| ONCE | Previously, and never to be repeated? |
| RECONVENE | Scattered once and never to get together again (9) |
| REENTRY | Disheartened never to return and attempt coming in again |
| VENDETTA | Some ratted, never to return to family feud (8) |
| GRACEKELLY | Which film star, and later princess, walked out of the Stork Club, never to return, when they refuse |
| PAINOFLIFE | In 1.3, the King pronounces something similar to the Duke of Norfolk. "The hopeless word of 'never to return' breathe I against thee, upon ___ ___ ___." |
| GONEFORGOOD | Departed, never to return (4,3,4) |
| GONEAWAY | Never to return |
| ABANDON | Leave a musical group, never to return? |
| FORGOODNESSSAKE | Never to return monstrous loch spirit in the name of God (3,8,4) |
| GREENROOM | Never to return wearing dress in theatrical space for visitors (5,4) |
| LAMPOONED | Arrangement to lend across shampoo mum's gone and taken off (9) |
| SANDIEGO | A city in 25 said to have gone and changed (3,5) |
| CASEY | Gone Baby Gone and The Finest Hours actor, ___ Affleck (5) |
| SWEETS | 'The day is gone, and all its ___ are gone!'(Keats) (6) |
| EXOFFICIO | Due to position, previous lover gone and nice Dior clothing disappeared (2,7) |
| NIL | Perhaps queue here, only to find last cake is gone and there's nothing left |
| HAKA | It's a challenge to have father gone and wife removed from whakapapa (4) |
| AWOL | Gone and in trouble |