| MANIKIN | Lost rag with rainmaking failure for dummy character (7) |
| PLACEBO | Doctor under pressure to withdraw notice for dummy medicine (7) |
| VINEGAR | Very fine female lost rag over sauce (7) |
| GRAVEST | Confusing rag with garment is most serious (7) |
| GIRAFFE | Playing rag with fife accompaniment brings out the beast in one (7) |
| REFUSAL | No failures for a change when I depart (7) |
| DRESSUP | Put on your glad rags, with Andre's support (5,2) |
| MANNEQUIN | Fellow, one of five going round Peterhead area for dummy model (9) |
| COUNTERFEIT | Iron put in bar - it's for dummy |
| ABSTRACTNOUN | Failure, for example, of NBC broadcast with astronaut (8,4) |
| GRADUAL | Crumpled rag with double capacity - but not all at once (7) |
| IBSEN | Barges in losing rag with writer associated with the pillars of society (5) |
| GREASE | It will make things easier for rag with see, perhaps (6) |
| THESUN | Enthusiastic? Missing second half, lost rag (3,3) |
| ARG | Former The Only Way Is Essex star James Argent familiarly lost rag (3) |
| EVES | The days before Greaves lost rag (4) |
| ALASDAIRGRAY | 5Dn mural artist unfortunately lost rag in milking parlour (8,4) |
| ELEC | There's none in a power failure, for short |
| WAMU | 2008 bank failure, for short |
| DUCK | A batting failure for a famous Donald |
