| KNOCKONWOOD | Handling offence, court finally seemed to hope for luck from America |
| LANCE | "Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many ____s in vain ever to hope for their extirpation" (Disraeli) |
| TRIUMPH | Strong card has one beginning to hope for win (7) |
| CATARRH | Sailor in saloon, maybe, beginning to hope for discharge |
| HAIRSPRAY | With Irish on board, has to hope for a fine solution |
| CINCH | Top commander's beginning to hope for certainty (5) |
| MIRTH | Shape up, beginning to hope for laughter (5) |
| CHICAGO | Fashionable in the past to hope for hospital drama starring Hector Elizondo (7) |
| WISHINGHOUR | Appointed time to hope for things? |
| PLAINT | Statement of grievance, it's clear, brought to court finally (6) |
| TREASON | Court finally presented with motive for serious crime (7) |
| OLDWIVESTALES | Bad luck from broken mirrors and opening umbrellas indoors (3,5',5) |
| HARDCHEESE | Sympathy over a bit of bad luck from Parmigiano-Reggiano (4,6) |
| AMULET | Mother, up to the turn, is allowed to wear it for luck (6) |
| TENNISPRO | Person in court finally might become person on it? (6,3) |
| BOWTIE | Stardust persona holding court, finally (3,3) |
| CHANCER | Court finally sent away unscrupulous opportunist (7) |
| SOLICIT | Court finally finds nothing within the law (7) |
| ATWOOD | Canadian writer at court finally exonerated (6) |
| ALLTHEBEST | Good luck from everything initially taught about a one-time capital of Egypt (3,3,4) |
