| TRUMAN | Maybe turn out a master or president |
| ORIGINAL | A master or prototype from which copies can be made; a work created personally by a particular artist, musician or writer; or, a made-to-measure designer garment |
| BEAK | Word for a bird's bill, a human's nose, a squid's mouthpart or a turtle's jaw that is also long-standing public school slang for a master or teacher (4) |
| AMORAL | A master or a learner lacking in ethics (6) |
| FIRSTDEGREE | Further education before a master's or doctorate (5,6) |
| GRE | Possible hurdle for getting a master's, or short |
| PROFESSOR | University academic of the highest rank; or, a title assumed by a charlatan, dancing-master or a Punch and Judy puppeteer (9) |
| TESTER | Historically, a person employed to prove the innocuousness of food by eating it before serving it to their master or mistress; or, a little cup for a person who is sampling wine (6) |
| TRANSLATE | Maybe turn to French trains: one’s missing, delayed! |
| ENCODE | Maybe turn to Morse? |
| REED | Instrument does maybe turn around |
| MISS | A damsel, schoolgirl, young lady, world beauty queen or other feminine "master"; or, a failure to catch/get/hit, possibly leading to disaster (4) |
| TERM | Period for a prisoner or president |
| NURTURED | Turn out a posh left-winger by upbringing? (8) |
| APPEAR | Turn out a revised paper (6) |
| OTHERWISE | Their woes turn out a different way (9) |
| DEPORT | Turn out a bad citizen perhaps |
| FRUITMACHINE | Gaming device that may turn out a lemon (5,7) |
| ENDUP | Turn out a satire that hasn't succeeded |
| CLOTHE | Turn out a fool? What's up? |
