| LIEDOWNONTHEJOB | Neglect one's responsibility like the bed tester does (3,4,2,3,3) |
| UNMADE | Like the bed of someone rushing out |
| GOLDILOCKS | Famous bed tester |
| ONONESOWNHEAD | A person's responsibility - like wearing a cap (2,4,3,4) |
| STEPUPTOTHEPLATE | Take responsibility like a major leaguer |
| INTHEHOTSEAT | Having much responsibility, like a driver with warm bottom? |
| CANOPY | A cover such as a bed's tester, a cockpit's transparent enclosure, a forest's collective tree crowns or a parachute's overhead fabric dome (6) |
| LETONESELFGO | Neglect one's appearance (3,7,2) |
| SHIRK | Be quiet then get annoyed with - so neglect one's duty (5) |
| BEANSWERABLEFOR | Shoulder, as one's responsibility |
| PASSTHEBUCK | Shirk one's responsibility to overtake the male of the species (4,3,4) |
| MISSION | Neglect one on purpose (7) |
| EXECUTOR | Will one's responsibility flower, given disruption of court? (8) |
| CROSSPATCH | Irascible type has to go over one's responsibility |
| ONUS | One's responsibility of doing something |
| OFFONESHANDS | No longer one's responsibility (3,4,5) |
| DUTY | One's responsibility for a specific levy |
| CONCERN | One's responsibility, will prove worrying (7) |
| LOVEAFFAIR | Nothing is one's responsibility during romantic relationship (4,6) |
| LENDING | One responsibility for a bank |
