| DEFAME | Make me deaf to change that will destroy my reputation (6) |
| DEFAMATORY | Slanderous and deaf to change, am backing Conservative (10) |
| FADE | Melt into the background, deaf to change (4) |
| ABELINCOLN | *U.S. leader who said "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" |
| ARMYWORMS | They"ll destroy my crops but not usually my marrows (4,5) |
| SUBLIMELY | Magnificently destroys my bullies (9) |
| DEMEAN | When Dean joins me it manages to lower my reputation (6) |
| CASSIO | "Othello" character who laments "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!" |
| AFFIED | No longer trusted, if deaf to reform |
| SEXTET | Without European vote, don't change that group of players (6) |
| TESTAMENT | Care to change that statement, Will? (9) |
| HAMSTRING | Grants him change that will make him powerless (9) |
| TORTURE | It is legally wrong to rue change that will cause pain (7) |
| PRESTO | Quickly! Change that poster! (6) |
| ENTERS | Resent change that comes in (6) |
| PULLUP | Stop! Revolution won't change that (4,2) |
| ITEM | It's time to change that thing (4) |
| AMEN | Mean to change that prayer ending? (4) |
| MATERIAL | I am alert to change that isn't spiritual (8) |
| INTHEMAIN | Mostly thin - unnaturally. I mean to change that (2,3,4) |
