| HALFMAST | How to maintain standards when everyone else is weeping and wailing (4-4) |
| CLAMENTATIONS | Molluskan weeping and wailing? |
| AFTERALL | When everyone else has gone, nevertheless (5,3) |
| MOCKTHE | Make fun of leaders of the house, even when everyone else keeps featuring 21Dn 12Ac (4,3,4) |
| WEEK | Make fun of leaders of the house, even when everyone else keeps featuring 21Dn 12Ac (4,3,4) |
| QUALITYCONTROL | Feature key way to maintain standards (7,7) |
| APPARENT | Seeming appropriate to maintain standard in French (8) |
| LAPSE | Drop in standards when circuits beginning to expire (5) |
| EMISSARY | Agent is weeping over failure, wasting time (8) |
| LAPS | Circuits fail to maintain standard we're told |
| INTEARS | European amid terrible strain is weeping (2,5) |
| PENDULOUS | Treated nodule in infectious fluid is weeping (9) |
| HEDGEROW | How to maintain advantage associated with river habitat for wildlife? (8) |
| GNASHING | "...there shall be weeping and ___ of teeth." (Matt. 8:12) |
| ALLSWELL | Everything's great when everyone dandy (4,4) |
| ALLCLEAR | Go-ahead given when everyone gets it (3,5) |
| HEADACHE | Pest on top of everything else is painful (8) |
| RESTEASY | Relax - everything else is simple |
| LIFEBOAT | Chopped up filet for snaky type inside - it will save someone's bacon if something else is scuppered |
| DEADTOTHEWORLD | Asleep ? late, as far as everyone else is concerned (4,2,3,5) |
