| DISGRACED | Humiliated, when grids are reworked by a crossword's first editor (9) |
| EXCLUDE | Leave out Times Crossword's first boring puzzle (7) |
| SQUARECUT | Upper and lower parts of this grid are shot (6,3) |
| ABIGAILSPARTY | Classic TV drama is reworked by a plagiarist (8,5) |
| ALEC | Lace reworked by a smart one (4) |
| PLUSSIGNS | The three in this grid are a hint to the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across |
| PUZZLED | Perplexed, as if by a crossword? (7) |
| OVERCAME | Defeated in part of cricket match, caught by a crossword setter |
| MENTALBLOCK | Puzzle part pictured by a crossword constructor? |
| GERIATRIC | Old criteria to be reworked by head of government (9) |
| FEELSMALL | Be humiliated when you don't measure up to? (4,5) |
| CECILROTH | Historian bon in 1899 who was the first editor of the "Encyclopaedia Judaica" (5,4) |
| CELILROTH | Historian born in 1899 who was the first editor of the 'Encyclopaedia Judaica' (5,4) |
| ABASED | Humiliated when found participating in a plot |
| ASHAMED | Humiliated when mother returned in a shack (7) |
| AGREE | What a sentence's noun and verb (and a crossword's writer and editor) should ideally do |
| AIDA | Verdi opera recently reworked by Elton John |
| GAYICON | Okaying chart-topper for the King, reworked by Elton John? (3,4) |
| LETITBE | Beatles song title reworked by Brian Epstein originally (3,2,2) |
| CASTS | Acts reworked by leader of Shakespearean theatre groups (5) |
