| AMORY | He wrote "The Last Resorts" |
| IOUS | Gamblers' last resorts |
| CENTRALBANKER | In the last resort, a person of interest to someone with access to The Capital from the city overseas? (7,6) |
| SKEGNESS | Let's chuck the bag on the bus: it's always the last resort |
| ALMOST | "Virtually the last resort," the doctor interposed (6) |
| COMB | The brush may be the last resort after you scour and search for it. (4) |
| PIGGY | Might it be the last resort in lean times to bring home the bacon? (5,4) |
| BANK | Might it be the last resort in lean times to bring home the bacon? (5,4) |
| STRAW | Some of the best raw materials can be the last resort (5) |
| STEALTH | Secretive activity, the last resort? (7) |
| PISALLER | The last resort (2 wds) |
| STEALTHY | In the last resort, your leader is furtive |
| ALLELSE | Everything but the last resort |
| TALONS | They grip and hold on in the last resort |
| BOWEN | Novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout (5) |
| STEALTHBOMBERS | In the last resort, our enemies once put doctor inside military aircraft (7,7) |
| ROSS | Jonathan, TV presenter whose career began on The Last Resort in 1987 (4) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; MP and author who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"; a friend of Disraeli and Dickens who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| FENIMORE | James _ Cooper, US author who wrote The Last Of The Mohicans (8) |
