| EARLIER | Hearing a falsehood, right at the end, or beforehand (7) |
| PREFACE | Did the first fellow caper about by the end, or in the beginning? (7) |
| FINIAL | From Latin for "end", an ornament or pommel in the form of an acorn, foliated fleur-de-lis, pine cone, poppy-head, spike etc at the end or top of a bench, curtain pole, gable or spire (6) |
| APPLIED | Spread a falsehood about page's daughter (7) |
| PARABLE | How they turn pale at the bar on hearing a story with hidden meaning (7) |
| ABANDON | Leaves the joint hearing a call to evacuate (7,4) |
| LORELEI | Fatal attraction of ancient learning? A falsehood, I'd say |
| ASHANTI | West African hearing a song of the sea |
| REOCCUR | Soldiers hearing a scoundrel come back (7) |
| EARDRUM | It's involved in hearing a murder suspect (7) |
| CALYPSO | Plays around in company, in short, hearing a West Indian song (7) |
| ARRAIGN | Hearing - a period of power leads to call to answer criminal charge (7) |
| ENTHRONED | Crowned at the end, or then, alternatively (9) |
| OPPOSITE | Work to set things in place, at the end, or face to face (8) |
| TIPTOE | Digit at the end or start of twenty one point one, oddly (6) |
| DETHRONE | Move the end, or remove one at the top? |
| OMEGA | Last Greek letter whose symbol in upper-case is used to denote ohm in physics or the end or limit of a set (5) |
| FLAM | An old word for custard or a crepe; a falsehood, idle fancy, trick or whim; or, a drumbeat of two strokes (4) |
| THRENODE | Writing about the end - or lament for the dead (8) |
| SHARPENS | Takes a bit off the end, or then gets upset in craft (8) |
