| URIGELLER | Mentalist who failed to bend Johnny Carson's spoons |
| AGREE | Have to correspond with a European who failed to finish (5) |
| NINE | Number of lepers who failed to return (4) |
| DROPOUT | Doctor exposed about operation as one who failed to qualify |
| ABSENTEE | One who failed to attend? Yes, the tea's been wasted (8) |
| STRIVE | Work hard, for second time, with runner who failed to finish (6) |
| DEPRIVE | Divest driver who failed to finish without a record (7) |
| LOSER | One who failed to win new roles |
| CANUTE | King who failed to hold back the sea (6) |
| WOLSEY | Thomas -; cardinal who failed to negotiate Henry VIII's annulment from Catherine of Aragon before be |
| SOSA | Player who failed to lead the league in all three seasons in which he hit 60+ home runs |
| PASCOE | Alan ___, British athlete who failed to clear any hurdles on his lap of honour following his victory in the 400m hurdles at the 1974 Commonwealth Games |
| REPECHAGE | A sporting contest in which the best-placed of those who failed to win heats compete for a place in the final (9) |
| LIBERTYX | Group formed by the finalists who failed to make it into the winning group Hear'Say on Popstars in 2001 (7,1) |
| FISH | BBC weather forecaster who failed to warn of a major storm in October 1987. (4) |
| SIMPHIWE | Khonco: South African IBO champ, who failed to win the WBC strawweight. (8) |
| BENEDICTARNOLD | General in the American Revolution who failed in his calamitous attempt to capture Quebec City in 1775: 2 wds. |
| SOCKETSET | For car nuts (and bolts) who failed the Coke tests (6,3) |
| LEHMAN | "Brothers" who failed on Wall Street |
| CHEN | Hollyoaks lad who failed his maths GCSE (5,4-8) |
