| GONER | Person or thing that is doomed (5) |
| EXTRA | Person or thing that is additional or beyond the usual, such as a spear carrier/supernumerary in a film or a newspaper supplement printed outside a normal printing cycle (5) |
| OTHER | Person or thing that is different from one already mentioned (5) |
| JEWEL | A person or thing that is precious |
| FATED | Oily chap is doomed (5) |
| GUIDE | An animal, person or thing that directs or steers, such as a handbook, manual, mountaineering leader , pathfinder or seeing-eye dog (5) |
| FATAL | Corpulent Gore is doomed |
| TRIER | A person or thing that tries (5) |
| OILER | A person or thing that lubricates (5) |
| OPENBOOK | A person or thing that is easy to understand or about which everything is known (4,4) |
| ENIGMA | Person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling or ambiguous (6) |
| BEHEMOTH | Person or thing that is enormous in size or power (8) |
| FLUSH | Busted ____, informal term for a person or thing that fails to fulfil its early promise (5) |
| AGENT | Person or thing that acts for another |
| PAININTHENECK | A person or thing that is a nuisance or very annoying (4,2,3,4) |
| FLAVOUROFTHEMONTH | Person or thing that is currently very popular (7,2,3,5) |
| STANDBY | A person or thing that is ready for use or can be relied on in an emergency (7) |
| CYNOSURE | A person or thing that is the centre of admiration or attention (8) |
| NONPAREIL | A person or thing that is without equal (9) |
| OPPOSITE | A person or thing that is the antithesis of something (8) |
