| PRESSURE | Journalists initially unhappy about strain |
| MOVE | Muse about strain to make overtures to (4,2,2) |
| INON | Muse about strain to make overtures to (4,2,2) |
| FORTUNECOOKIE | Warning about strain by doctor: one that has a lot in it? |
| FURNITURE | Fool covered with hair initially unhappy about chairs, for example (9) |
| ESPRESSO | Directions given to journalists initially ordering coffee (8) |
| PROGRESS | Development favouring Government journalists initially withheld |
| HACKS | Journalists initially hailing admirable concert know something (5) |
| INEDIBLE | Bile about fashionable journalist initially hard to take in |
| LABORATORIES | Labour, initially unhappy, left a Conservatives' research centre (12) |
| SCHEDULE | Schoolboy initially unhappy with the French timetable |
| MENU | Fellows initially unhappy with list of dishes (4) |
| HANGBACK | Get behind report journalist initially mixed up |
| VAUDEVILLE | Was initially unhappy to do a turn in farewell show |
| SOU | Initially unhappy succeeding, consequently made a little bit of money (3) |
| HUGHFOULIS | Initially unhappy and frightened being embraced by weird, ghoulish man behind 29Ac (4,6) |
| BLACKSPOUT | Initially unhappy in dangerous location, as waterfall near Pitlochry (5,5) |
| SUICIDAL | Initially unhappy to feature in remake of I, Claudius, is being self-destructive (8) |
| POPULIST | Old man initially unhappy with record, like President-elect (8) |
| PUTOFF | Penny initially unhappy with upper-class chap's delay (3,3) |
