| RUBSOFF | Outcome of masseur's dismissal is conveyed by association |
| RUBBERBAND | Group of masseurs? |
| SAPS | Employers of masseurs |
| ELITISM | Sort of superior attitude? It is conveyed by dodgy smile |
| SURFS | Is conveyed by the rollers (5) |
| TRUE | Honest heart of masseur taken aback (4) |
| COMINGROUND | Calling card of masseur initially buried? |
| DEISM | Belief is conveyed by ultimatum, not half |
| REDCARD | Dismissal is indicated by this angry-looking oddball |
| CATCHUP | Work faster, in arrears, when the chance of dismissal is greater |
| DUCT | A tube, pipe or canal by means of which a fluid or gas is conveyed (4) |
| TABARD | A type of tunic connecting by association heralds, household staff, knights, members of the clergy, peasants, servants and warriors (6) |
| SALLY | Girls' name meaning "princess" that is linked by association with a bell-rope, a dummy, a fairground/pub game, a figure of fun, a quip, a sortie and Worzel Gummidge's mischievous and somewhat vain cou |
| ATHEISM | Unbelief is conveyed in article by those people |
| PENANCE | In Roman Catholicism, the sacrament by which absolution is conveyed (7) |
| UNFAIR | --- dismissal is the termination of a person's job without good reason (6) |
| ALISON | Dismissal is only about woman (6) |
| RANSACKING | Hurried dismissal is going through (10) |
| OUTRIGHT | Total dismissal is correct (8) |
| CONGEREEL | Dismissal is to stagger swimmer |
