| TANNER | Leather worker and his former small earnings in England? (6) |
| SERF | "The ___" (Matisse sculpture depicting a feudal worker... and his only male nude done from observation!) |
| WINNINGS | West Indian bridge player Newton gets gin cocktail with some small earnings from gambling (8) |
| INCOME | Earnings in firm shown by first person (6) |
| BECKET | Archbishop whose quarrel with his former friend and chess/hawking companion, Henry II, led to said prelate's assassination in 1170 (6) |
| WAGERS | Gambles one's earnings in the first race |
| SADDER | More downhearted when the leather worker loses a pound (6) |
| THEWAY | Ben Affleck plays an alcoholic who attempts to get his life back on track by stepping into the role of basketball coach at his former high school in the drama _ Back (3,3) |
| TALBOT | Inventor of the calotype process whose pioneering book The Pencil of Nature includes photographs of his former home Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (6) |
| WESTON | Phil ...... , Gloucestershire CCC opener who made an unbeaten 110 in the 2004 C & G Trophy Final against his former club Worcestershire (6) |
| STERNE | Author, clergyman, humorist and sentimentalist whose life is celebrated at his former home, Shandy Hall (6) |
| SAMSON | Stepson of Lydia Dingle, currently in jail for attacking his former Dales mate Josh Cope (6) |
| APEXES | Dad turned up with his former wives to the summits (6) |
| EMMETT | _ J Scanlan, married his former Hollyoaks colleague Claire Cooper (6) |
| MISTRY | Jimi _, actor married to his former Strictly partner Flavia Cacace (6) |
| NELSON | Jesy _, former Little Mix member (6) |
| STOKER | Which Dublin-born author is honoured by a plaque on his former home on Kildare Street? (6) |
| EXPOSE | Show up his former attitude (6) |
| TOOLER | Certain leather worker |
| SHAWLS | On the quiet, leather workers' instruments are used to produce stoles |
