| LITTERBIN | It is in brittle form with the rubbish it contains (6,3) |
| BAKELITE | Brittle form of plastic made from formaldehyde and phenol, developed in New York in 1907 |
| DRYROT | Boring rubbish - it may make one's beam disappear |
| DETRITUS | Rubbish - it rusted (anag) (8) |
| NICOBAR | The --- Islands are a group in the Indian Ocean which form, with the Andaman Islands, a union territory of India (7) |
| MISALLIANCES | Bad marriages all one can form with the East in a spinster (12) |
| RETURN | The journey back runs true to form with the Navy (6) |
| STUMP | One of three sticks that form with the bails a wicket in cricket (5) |
| KEEN | "Eager, sharp" word sometimes used informally in combining form with the name of a choice stone fruit (4) |
| BONDI | Link one forms with the beach at Sydney (5) |
| PARROT | A bird will knock it back with the rubbish (6) |
| GARBAGE | First Bentley to appear in motor repair shop with the rubbish (7) |
| DUSTMAN | Graduate performer in hospital, sick, leaving worker to deal with the rubbish |
| TAMARIND | Tropical evergreen tree with brown, pulpy pods in brittle shells (8) |
| TRAVERSED | Crossed art form with poetry, on the day (9) |
| ISOMORPHS | Substances which exactly correspond in form with another (9) |
| WASTE | We have to get a way to deal with the rubbish (5) |
| REFUSETOGO | Insist on staying with the rubbish due for collection (6,2,2) |
| LITTER | Animal young on a stretcher with the rubbish? (6) |
| OPPRESSOR | Tyrant has poor form with reporters (9) |
