| RIGHTFUL | Left empty? No - quite the opposite reportedly and so it should be (8) |
| ITSABOUTTIME | The subject is History and so it should be! (3,5,4) |
| VACATED | How will Dave act if it's left empty? (7) |
| COLONEL | Last Cluedo room's empty? No suspect (7,7) |
| MUSTARD | Last Cluedo room's empty? No suspect (7,7) |
| DEVOID | When empty-No can do dive! (6) |
| GONDOLA | Slime coating empty no-good city vessel (7) |
| EGGHEADS | Brainboxes that are hard to crack? No quite easily it would appear (8) |
| SIGNOFFS | Cronkite's "And that's the way it is" and Ellerbee's "And so it goes," e.g. |
| CREDIT | Could start to get in the red with it? No - quite the opposite (6) |
| VONNEGUT | Author noted for Slaughterhouse Five, his 1969 novel containing the refrain And So It Goes (8) |
| SIGHTSEE | Spot the ocean reportedly and act the tourist (8) |
| FLEABITE | Get out reportedly and take the bait to chemists - they generally have something to take the sting o |
| ROADBED | Over the way? No, quite the opposite! (7) |
| SWINEFLU | Scoundrel went by air reportedly and got the disease (5,3) |
| UNITED | Untied? No, quite the opposite (6) |
| ODD | Peculiar, sordid even? No, quite the opposite (3) |
| ELLERBEE | "And So It Goes" author Linda |
| BOWLOVER | Thoroughly impress dandy, reportedly, and live-in partner (4,4) |
| STEMHEAD | Shaded with ease reportedly and appears after flowering (4,4) |
