| DEJECTION | Lecturer goes round to expel one in sad state (9) |
| DANDELION | Plant university lecturer goes round with priest |
| REGIUSPROFESSOR | Lecturer goes for surprise rave! |
| ACOUSTIC | Concerning hearing a cricket club's holding to expel one |
| ITALY | European country, I agree, needing to expel one Liberal |
| AIDS | Lends a hand to one in sad disarray (4) |
| LONELINESS | Another illness overwhelms one in sad isolation (10) |
| SHAKEDOWN | Thoroughly search Arab leader, we hear, in sad state (5,4) |
| ELIMINATE | Expel one minister in delight (9) |
| TRISTESSE | Truro's head girl found in tower in a sad state (9) |
| ATTENTIVE | Being conscientious, Mrs Peron goes round to clear up (9) |
| TRACKDOWN | Find after search cycling site in a sad state (5,4) |
| OVERGRAZE | Rev Ezra, go round to see what cows might to if they spend too long in the same field (9) |
| LEFTOVERS | Newt fanciers go round to see what hasn't been eaten (9) |
| MANTOVANI | A bloke and Ivan the Terrible go round to the man with the singing strings (9) |
| MOURNFULNESS | Second vessel, nearly packed, reaching cape in sad state (12) |
| DATASETS | Files in sad state reorganised (4,4) |
| MISERLY | Learner in sad state getting tight |
| ATTENDS | Goes to mend the tent, in a sad state of disrepair |
| HEARTBREAK | Get word of British trapped in wood in a sad state (10) |
