| 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 |
| 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) |
| TALLEST | Most improbable stories about large cat - about to be dismissed |
| ROUTED | One far to the left about to be dismissed, utterly defeated (6) |
| 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) |
| ALIENATED | Annoyed by getting a dateline wrong (9) |
| CROSSWORD | You're presumably looking at this right now, annoyed by a single conversational piece (9) |
| IRRITATED | Annoyed by Dire Straits, unfortunately twice missing start of song (9) |
| LIBRARIAN | Book-keeper annoyed by a riotous entry? (9) |
| DELIRIOUS | Acutely disturbed and turning annoyed by notes of debt (9) |
