| PROHIBIT | Present argument in favour of replacing former partner in bar |
| ASSERTION | Claim Trump's behind replacing former partner in industry (9) |
| CASE | If it please the court, dear reader, present argument, please. (5,4,4) |
| STATEYOUR | If it please the court, dear reader, present argument, please. (5,4,4) |
| DEVILSADVOCATE | Official appointed to present arguments against a proposed canonisation (6,8) |
| FORENSIC | Appropriate to argument in favour of new science ___ ignoring church (8) |
| PROPOUND | Put forward argument in favour of sterling (8) |
| PROTRACT | Extend argument in favour of open country (8) |
| PROTOCOL | Treaty draft is to pass, after argument in favour |
| THEPOOLS | Offers a sporting chance of replacing potholes (3,5) |
| REPRESSION | Subjugation of announcement about replacing former partner (10) |
| VISION | Legal clause waives argument in favour of faculty |
| TESTER | One who objects loses argument in favour of one experimenting |
| PROS | An argument in favour of a proposal (4) |
| FLOOR | Defeat argument in favour of accepting reduced fortune |
| PRO | An argument in favour of a proposal |
| PROVISION | Supply argument in favour of dream (9) |
| PROFILE | Outline argument in favour of data collection (7) |
| PROVOST | Argument in favour of very old revered figure as college dignitary (7) |
| TREASON | The principal argument in favour of betrayal (7) |