| MONOMANIA | Having a hobby horse, rider's first to leave country after endless battle |
| IMINTOSOMETHING | Amnesiac's vague recollection of having a hobby? |
| OILDRUM | First to leave country departs on strange, crude vessel (3,4) |
| OMAN | Female first to leave country (4) |
| HUNGRY | Keen for first character to leave country (6) |
| GUIDING | Leading man, we hear, dying to leave country at last (7) |
| EMIGRE | Someone forced to leave country of corrupt regime (6) |
| LEGACY | Bequest mature student rejected, content to leave country (6) |
| CONGO | Criminal to leave country |
| ELAND | Animal last to leave country (5) |
| BRAZIL | Burglarized so urged to leave country (6) |
| EMIGRATE | English judge inspires fighter to leave country |
| NOR | Neither way to leave country (3) |
| DADA | French word for "hobby-horse" that, following its random selection from the pages of a dictionary using a paperknife, was given as the name of a nihilistic art movement co-founded by Jean Arp and Tris |
| WATERPOLO | Endless battle to secure first couple of points in game (5,4) |
| ROCKER | A cradle, curved support for a chair, hobby-horse, mod's rival, mosher, R'n'R fan or other reeling, swaying, swinging or wobbling person/thing (6) |
| WATERBUFFALO | In endless battle fiend confronts a beast of burden |
| RICE | Rider's first with a form of water and grainy food (4) |
| CRECHE | Endless battle over Hotel Metropole's last day nursery |
| DUCHESS | Maybe Meghan expected endless battle with Queen and her allies? |
