| DISGRACED | Humiliated, when grids are reworked by a crossword's first editor (9) |
| ABIGAILSPARTY | Classic TV drama is reworked by a plagiarist (8,5) |
| EXCLUDE | Leave out Times Crossword's first boring puzzle (7) |
| SQUARECUT | Upper and lower parts of this grid are shot (6,3) |
| 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) |
| PARADIGMS | Patterns that could be made by a map with grids |
| DISREGARD | Read grids out of lack of respect (9) |
| RETICULES | Cites rule drawn up for some grids (9) |
| GRADUATES | Marks scale of French usage essentially in grids (9) |
| ABASED | Humiliated when found participating in a plot |
| ASHAMED | Humiliated when mother returned in a shack (7) |
| DOTMATRIX | Such a grid's pointed to mad, mad cruciverbalist, ultimately: man of farce (3,6) |
| MARDIGRAS | Ruin a grid's layout for carnival (5,4) |
