| INTHEPAST | Once, in trying to paint, he pasted (2,3,4) |
| BED | Using some paint, he bedaubed le lit (3,3) |
| THE | Using some paint, he bedaubed le lit (3,3) |
| SANGFROID | Composure in trying circumstances |
| WITCHHUNT | It may end in trying time after a spell of ill-will (5-4) |
| NITWIT | He's stupid in trying to open it without a key |
| MISSPOTTER | Tom to persist in trying to see Beatrix film (4,6) |
| TIMELAPSE | Such a photo mate pasted up in paper at bottom of page |
| FINISHINGSCHOOL | Refinery, as it were, in ... in trying to catch ... a lot of fish (9-6) |
| EXPEL | Banish in trying to annex Peloponesian state |
| OVERCOMPENSATE | Go too far in trying to correct a fault |
| DENSITY | Stupidity in trying to alter one's destiny? |
| SPLASHY | Notice the cat's come in, trying to attract attention? |
| OMIT | Starts off madly in trying to get something out |
| DEFENSIVELY | Defy the elves, in trying to act protectively (11) |
| LUPIN | A bloomer in trying to fill up inkwell (5) |
| CHATUPLINE | Work a lech put in, trying to secure a date |
| BOOKPLATE | A decorative label bearing the identifying coat of arms, crest, ex libris, motto or simply the name of the owner of the tome in which it is pasted (9) |
| WALLPAPER | It is pasted up with every exam |
| EARSHOT | There is no point in trying to get any conversation out of it (7) |
