| FKENNEDY | President Bush written off? Finally, with knowledge and study turned into delight (4,1,7) |
| JOHN | President Bush written off? Finally, with knowledge and study turned into delight (4,1,7) |
| ELATION | Drink after retiring turned into delight (7) |
| OCCULT | Knowledge and study of supernatural forces (6) |
| SPINOZA | "Perfect truth is possible only with knowledge, and in knowledge the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it." He wrote the treatise Ethics. Who is this? |
| PROS | Persons with knowledge and skill (4) |
| EXPERT | Person with knowledge and skill (6) |
| GURU | One with knowledge and expertise |
| SERENDIPITOUS | President's IOU written off? That's fortunate |
| MANTRA | Seductive woman quietly written off? It should be mulled over (6) |
| NOHOPER | Mobile phone... or has he been written off? (2-5) |
| THECLOCKSBACK | "President Bush was asked how he came up with a conservative like Alito, and he said he got the idea |
| GEORGECROSS | E.g. president Bush and Ford getting recognition for valour (6,5) |
| WHODUNIT | Bodywork with bumper off finally exposed |
| POSTCHAISE | After tea I set off finally in old carriage (4,6) |
| RURITANIA | IRA unit ran off, finally forsaking realm of romance (9) |
| ATLAS | Man weighed down by the world taking time off finally (5) |
| ONTHESCRAPHEAP | As the chap prone to be written off? |
| ACOUSTICS | Sound study turned out so caustic (9) |
| UNNAMED | University fellow entering study turned up without identification |
