| INRED | How mistakes are often marked |
| INHASTE | How many mistakes are made |
| EXIT | It's often marked with a number |
| COLDTAP | It is often marked blue (4,3) |
| EXITS | They're often marked with red signs |
| AWAYGAME | It's often marked with an "@" |
| CONTRACTION | A shortening of a word, or group of words, often marked by an apostrophe (11) |
| LUPUS | Auto-immune disease often marked by inflammation of the skin (5) |
| SEVRES | Often marked with interlaced blue Ls, French porcelain with pieces in the form of ormolu-mounted vases, hard paste ice-pails and bleu lapis gondolashaped potpourri vessels (6) |
| GULES | In heraldry, a red colour, often marked in engraved figures by parallel vertical lines |
| ERRATA | Such mistakes are holding a sailing man up (6) |
| VARSITY | Mistakes are keeping sailor capsized (6) |
| NOSIER | Senior mistakes are more curious (6) |
| TERRORSTRICKEN | Mistakes are deceiving among a number gripped by fear |
| ERRORS | Mistakes are a source of mirth in play |
| SLIPS | Where mistakes are made in the field? (5) |
| DAYOFRECKONING | An accountant's nine to five when mistakes are painfully exposed? |
| ABADWORKMANBLAMESHISTOOLS | Retort when someone says mistakes are caused by things they use (1,3,7,6,3,5) |
| CAPITALCITY | *Place often marked with a star on 24-Down |
| INBLUE | How baby boys are often dressed |
