| ARTHRITIS | Painful problem of cooking Irish tart (9) |
| STRUNGOUT | Queen in daze with painful problem, getting addicted to a drug (6,3) |
| BUNION | Painful problem resulting from ballerina's first partnership (6) |
| EARACHE | Painful problem for some when a plane lands |
| ACORN | A painful problem with the oak tree (5) |
| MUSCLEKNOT | Scan Elon Musk for painful problem (6,4) |
| SLIPPEDDISC | Rim in new specs did lead to painful problem (7,4) |
| TENNISELBOW | Foolishly, be insolent with wife resulting in painful problem (6,5) |
| GOOUTLIKEALIGHT | Old, crushed by painful problem, want to settle and fall asleep quickly (2,3,4,1,5) |
| PARALOGIA | Bush's problem of failed goal in Caribbean gulf (9) |
| DIAGNOSES | Identifies problem of San Diego's poor (9) |
| ADDRESSED | Tackled problem of how to get mail to its destination? (9) |
| HOTPOTATO | Tricky problem of stolen vessel at bottom of Sargasso |
| EYESTRAIN | People ultimately agreed to work out problem of optics? (9) |
| GLOSSITIS | Girl's missing. It is the problem of the tongue (9) |
| CONUNDRUM | Problem of pigeon caught in tight cord - I'm thinking (9) |
| UNANIMOUS | All agree world organisation's main problem of first getting America to join (9) |
| GLOBESITY | One Tory disheartened after Balls reveals worldwide problem of great proportion (9) |
| READDRESS | Have another look at the problem of compensation about the advertisement (9) |
| THREEBODY | ___ Problem of celestial mechanics |
