| EASYTERMS | Hire purchase, perhaps, at times when pupils have least difficulty? (4,5) |
| SCHOOLDAY | Time when pupils are in class [ |
| SHIFTS | Changes one's clothes at times, when at work (6) |
| AGREEMENTS | Match up some pieces, at times, when sealing contracts (10) |
| TASTELESS | Hardy girl has the least difficulty, lacking aesthetic judgment (9) |
| OCTET | Group commander at time when there was offensive in Vietnam |
| CORNPLASTER | Applied at time when there's trouble afoot |
| SIMPLEST | Lets single little devil move with the least difficulty (8) |
| EASIEST | Posing least difficulty (7) |
| HORSEWHIP | Flog new shower with one entering hire purchase (9) |
| CASHPOINT | Hire purchase stops actions changing source of money |
| DISCREDIT | Question early discussions on hire-purchase |
| TABLELAMP | Furniture store purchase, perhaps |
| SPRINGTERM | When pupils come on by leaps and bounds? (6,4) |
| DILATE | When pupils get bigger, they die late, apparently (6) |
| LESSEN | Decrease what pupils have to listen to (6) |
| SEEEYETOEYE | Agree, once pupils have been lined up? (3,3,2,3) |
| SLIGO | County's old pupils have no heart to return |
| CLASSIC | Pupils have one chance to start a standard work (7) |
| BOARDERS | Some pupils have a way to infiltrate the South Africans (8) |