| AQUILON | Quantum and poor Louisa exchanging partners in the wind (7) |
| BOSUN | Ship's officer's perk ? that's exchanging partners (5) |
| WIFESWAPPING | Exchanging partners (4,8) |
| LADDERS | Fifty snakes and their partners in the game (7) |
| TAGTEAM | Label meat cooked for partners in the ring (3,4) |
| COLLINS | Author of The Woman in White, No Name and Poor Miss Finch whose book The Moonstone is generally regarded as the first detective novel (7) |
| MISRULE | Smile in confusion about sport and poor governance (7) |
| SPOUSES | Small and poor, intermittently employs partners (7) |
| BAHAMAS | Graduate and poor actor like Atlantic Ocean group? (7) |
| ERSKINE | Author of novels Tragic Ground and Poor Fool (7,8) |
| EVASIVE | Being devious and poor I've saved endlessly (7) |
| TWOSTAR | Somewhere between excellent and poor, as a restaurant |
| EASTEND | Upset at dense and poor part of London (4,3) |
| DUNNOANDBRADSTREET | Confused partners in the business world? |
| KITWE | Equipment for partners in the Copper Belt (5) |
| NIGHT | A great many swapping partners in the dark (5) |
| YEAR | Couples swap partners in the relationship series, Seven ___ Switch (4) |
| EXES | Partners in the past |
| RODS | Cones' partners, in the eye |
| THELAW | "___, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread": Anatole France |
