| DISMAL | Maids managed to get student depressed (6) |
| SHOVEL | Push to get student an implement (6) |
| REVOLTING | Nasty about making democratic choice to get student in (9) |
| ADMIT | Maid managed, with time, to confess |
| MELT | London police get student to soften (4) |
| PILLOW | Bolster irrational student, depressed (6) |
| BLUE | Sporty student, depressed |
| ALLOWANCE | A student depressed before dance, missing first grant (9) |
| LAIDLOW | Student, depressed, accepted help and hid (4,3) |
| KNELL | Ring joint briefly and get students (5) |
| IDS | Cards that might get students discounts |
| DISARM | Win over maids prepared to capture king (6) |
| EIGHTH | Day of Christmas to receive maids a-milking (6) |
| DISMAY | Shock maids working close to scullery (6) |
| LEMONS | With juice once used as invisible ink, citrus fruits with zest used to flavour Banbury cakes, Shrewsbury biscuits, Cornish saffron buns or maids of honour tarts (6) |
| MISFIT | Eccentric maids oddly in good shape (6) |
| SQUEAK | Content of bisque? A kitchen-maid's to tell (6) |
| SADISM | Southern maids distressed by cruelty (6) |
| AMIDST | Among working maids, trouble starts. (6) |
| SITCOM | Series on TV? It's funny - about old maids, primarily (6) |
