| CHANCES | Lacked caution, but accepted opportunities (4,7) |
| TOOK | Lacked caution, but accepted opportunities (4,7) |
| CURE | He's a caution, but may make one better (4) |
| FAINT | Weak and overweight, but accepted at home (5) |
| INFIRM | Unstable, but accepted by the company (6) |
| MADEDO | Managed to get into party, but accepted second-best |
| TOOKAPART | Ran down, but accepted a role (4,5) |
| PUTBACK | Delay reviewed, but accepted by group? (3,4) |
| RUDYARD | He refused the role of Poet Laureate but accepted the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, ... Kipling |
| PENETRATION | Lacked by those who fail to get through (11) |
| INSET | Not flush, but accepted by social clique (5) |
| FANON | Slang portmanteau for details of a fictional universe not in original material but accepted by most devotees |
| OWNED | Had made king, but lacked credit (5) |
| EXTENDED | Lengthy SMS lacked a heading, but had a conclusion (8) |
| KIRKCONNEL | Where in Scotland church officer had none but lacked nothing (10) |
| RAISE | May speak highly of one, but lacked power to bring things to life (5) |
| GRIGRI | Get a grip, twice, but lacked power to create an African spell (6) |
| OCTET | This large group of musicians comes from Eastcott -- they're no half-wits, but they lacked ambition to start with and needed good management (5) |
| SANTIAGO | South American capital that considered a 2022 bid; it has the mountains but lacked the ice-sports facilities |
| COULDNOT | Lacked ability to |
