| SITUATION | Office suit annoyed by legal proceedings about to be dismissed (9) |
| PROSECUTE | Seek redress by legal proceedings (9) |
| UNASSUMING | Modest girl's taking legal proceedings about male |
| EXECS | Office "suits," informally |
| SUSPENDED | Instituted proceedings about internal pay out but they were deferred |
| HARLEQUIN | Clown in RU team, second to be dismissed (9) |
| OUTANDOUT | Unqualified to be dismissed and away from home (3,3,3) |
| STRIKEOUT | Resolute nurses Keir ordered to be dismissed |
| TALLEST | Most improbable stories about large cat - about to be dismissed |
| ROUTED | One far to the left about to be dismissed, utterly defeated (6) |
| SECTARY | Office worker about to be dismissed as member of religious group (7) |
| PETITIONER | Supplicant saying something twice, about to be dismissed with little hesitation |
| SORE | Twenty, about to be dismissed, becoming resentful |
| VOTIVE | Case about to be dismissed in fulfilment of solemn promise (6) |
| FORTHECHOP | Fetch poor eccentric around hospital about to be dismissed (3,3,4) |
| CHOP | For the ___ , phrase meaning 'about to be dismissed' (4) |
| OUTRE | Eccentric about to be dismissed first (5) |
| CARD | Charge payment, about to be dismissed (4) |
| WARD | Charge payment, about to be dismissed (4) |
| MARIONETTE | Terminate proceedings about the middle of glove puppet (10) |
