| ABDICATOR | One giving up office to bar a CID eruption (9) |
| RETIRING | Modest enough to be giving up office (8) |
| DESIGNATION | Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office (11) |
| POLLUTION | Corruption in election, university to bar a dean ultimately (9) |
| DEFEATIST | One giving up a fit steed for training (9) |
| MEDICATES | A CID meets criminal for drugs (9) |
| RADICCHIO | Chicory with purple leaves - a CID choir (anag) (9) |
| ABDICATES | Gives up office from basic date (9) |
| ACCESSION | Act of taking up office (9) |
| STEPSDOWN | Gives up office for cats and dogs raised on top of Sperrins in Northern Ireland (5,4) |
| CHOCOLATE | From cacao bean to wrapped bar, a universally esteemed food, such as the couverture variety for enrobing and ganache, or the Italian gianduja sort blended with noisette paste (9) |
| ALBATROSS | Big Bird used bar a lot on board (9) |
| PORTCULLIS | Once an Old French "sliding gate", later a heavy grating either lowered to bar a castle's entrance, serving as a heraldic lattice, or adorning an Elizabethan silver halfpenny (10) |
| EMBARRASSED | Shamed me going up to bar - a fool getting overdrawn? |
| BATHCHAIR | Conveyance fixed bar a hitch (4,5) |
| CRABAPPLE | Bar, a place possibly around back of shop is source of jam? (4,5) |
| INCATRAIL | Hip hipster bar a Peruvian attraction? (4,5) |
| THEDA | Prosecutor to bar a silent actress. (5) |
| ALYCIDON | One of the racehorses whose name was used for a Class 55. Only a CID officer can tell you which one (8) |
| IVE | "___ had it!": Cry of one giving up on a relapser |
