| NOVELISTS | Isn't solve exciting to get the down solutions! (9) |
| THEWIRE | It can be exciting to get down to it |
| EDGEWAYS | It's impossible to communicate why Paul has across and down solutions, but not laterally? (1,4,3,1,4,2,8) |
| ICANTGET | It's impossible to communicate why Paul has across and down solutions, but not laterally? (1,4,3,1,4,2,8) |
| AWORDIN | It's impossible to communicate why Paul has across and down solutions, but not laterally? (1,4,3,1,4,2,8) |
| THRILLING | Exciting to object about stream (9) |
| RATIONALE | Limit the supply of beer that's a reasonable solution! (9) |
| DERELICTS | Ted gets left with the cries of the down-and-outs (9) |
| EIDERDOWN | Seabird from which comes the down used to make quilts (5,4) |
| WEARINESS | "____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard" (Cymbeline) |
| ALMSHOUSE | Home to the down-and-out |
| THATWORKS | *"There's a solution!" |
| NEGATIVES | They're on the down side |
| PARTIILAM | End of a trilogy, and a phrase that hints at each circled word when entering it in the Down direction |
| MAELSTROM | Mother embraces 3-down solution, never ending in total confusion (9) |
| DOWN | DD indeed, the way you're going: so get all the more committed to a solution! (6,4) |
| DOUBLE | DD indeed, the way you're going: so get all the more committed to a solution! (6,4) |
| STRETTA | Musical passage starts to sound terrific, really exciting to the audience (7) |
| LYE | First to see down solution |
| BRAKEFLUID | Clue for 'baker' slowing down solution? |
