| OUTWEIGHED | Overcome eg with love, due for breakdown |
| NUMB | Unable to love due to the cold (4) |
| COLLAPSE | Close pal treated for breakdown (8) |
| CAESURA | Pause as a cure for breakdown (7) |
| LYSIN | Completely lost pride perhaps the reason for breakdown? (5) |
| SLOWS | What fast beat does for breakdown |
| STABLEMATE | Colleague heading for breakdown during deadlock (10) |
| SHELLBIT | It may be boring having to sit around suffering, heading for breakdown (8) |
| FLATS | Reasons for breakdowns |
| COMPOSTHEAP | Where to go for breakdowns while gardening (7,4) |
| EAT | What to do with mutton, eg, with its head removed (3) |
| SPRAY | Aerosol, eg with extremely poor contents (5) |
| EGRESS | Exit, eg with a topless dress (6) |
| BESIDEONESELF | Irrational, eg with worry (6,7) |
| SEGREGATION | Divisive policy contrived eg with iron gates (11) |
| BEGGAR | Bachelor, e.g., with newspaper turning up with cadger (6) |
| PASSPORT | Go beyond calais, eg, with this authority (8) |
| SMUTTY | Improper bondage games, eg, with topless old Scots quean |
| STRATEGIC | Calculated eg with a strict manoeuvre (9) |
| WELD | Unite (metal, eg.) with heat |
