| RAINOUT | It spells ruin to a postponed game (4,3) |
| DOOM | Party incantation spells ruin (4) |
| VENDETTA | Feud may spell ruin for all in Mediterranean capital |
| TOPPING | Beg Repton Priory's ruins to form this distinctive hill in the North Yorks Moors (9,7) |
| INURE | Get used to awful ruin, to a point (5) |
| INSURE | Provide cover for dilapidated ruins, to a point (6) |
| FOLLY | A sham ruin to silliness, faux castle to foppery or other whimsical costly monument to madness (5) |
| RAINCHECK | Ticket from a postponed ball game |
| NAPALM | It spells end of vegetation, when put on a tree (6) |
| NORI | Japanese food that's a good source of what it spells backward |
| LATERDATE | When a postponed event is scheduled |
| REDLIGHT | It spells danger in the title of a 1977 Billy Ocean song (3,5) |
| ELAM | Old Persian Gulf kingdom (with a matriarchal social system, despite what it spells backward) |
| TROUBLE | He's not needed the Russian currency ___ it spells vexation! (7) |
| LUNCH | In short, it spells courses at midday (5) |
| ARTIFICE | If chill follows practical skill, it spells trickery (8) |
| DEMOLISH | Home slid into ruin to knock down (8) |
| FATAL | Causing ruin to chubby Mr. Jolson (5) |
| CANOFWORMS | Company's chief batting for woman taking bribes... in the end, it spells trouble (3,2,5) |
| NOEL | Does it spell Christmas for Gallagher? (4) |
