| GRUE | It's no good forsaking US trash for Scottish shudder |
| UTAH | US trash regularly dumped here? (4) |
| PIGLATIN | Ashtray for trash, for example |
| SCAVENGE | Search through trash for stuff worth keeping |
| HOUSEHOLDCHORES | Doing the dishes and taking out the trash, for two |
| CHORE | Taking out the trash, for one |
| ASSASSIN | Hit man weighing up taking out Government and forsaking East for America (8) |
| ALLIANCE | Daughter's forsaking casual affair for marriage |
| MARINER | Female forsaking fireman, foolishly heading for Rotterdam, and sailor (7) |
| DESERTER | Steered right around for one forsaking a cause (8) |
| LANATURNER | Actress who said, "Forsaking glamour is like forsaking my identity" |
| TRANSCENDENTAL | Rise above cognitive, forsaking male approach for mystical (14) |
| LANA | Turner who said "Forsaking glamour is like forsaking my identity" |
| DESERT | Word, from "abandoned place, lay waste", for an act of forsaking; a barren arid land; or, a flock of lapwings (6) |
| DEBAR | Prevent Alan forsaking star (5) |
| RELIEFMAP | Terrible failure with MEP forsaking Unionist plan (6,3) |
| POPE | Religious leader animated man forsaking you in the Bible? |
| SEDUCE | Forsaking 19, she and Italian leader get into bed? (6) |
| APOSTATE | A number of letters worried one forsaking party? (8) |
| ASININITY | Idiocy of a Conservative forsaking urban crime? |
