| EXTRICATE | Release former partner, about stifled by routine (9) |
| RUTHLESS | Husband stifled by routine without becoming unfeeling |
| EXUDE | Release former partner, due out (5) |
| EXEMPT | Release former partner, almost lacking emotion |
| EXCUSE | Release former partner caught handling (6) |
| LACTATION | One so lost in quarantine, occupied by routine milk production (9) |
| AUTOMATON | One who acts mindlessly and by routine (9) |
| INTRICATE | Popular accountant stifled by banal complex (9) |
| SMOTHERED | Mother's with little Edwin feeling stifled by it all (9) |
| DISMANTLE | Separate from heartless nut, stifled by miserable marriage finally (9) |
| LONDONERS | City folk's noon party stifled by misanthropes? (9) |
| INOURTIME | I'm limited by routine working nowadays |
| HANSOMCAB | Awful moans stifled by composer mounting carriage (6-3) |
| EXCLAIMS | Former partner, about 50, getting goals cries out (8) |
| UNITING | Wedding is far from interesting without former partner about |
| EXCLUDE | Former partner, about 50, due out of bar (7) |
| EXOTIC | Striking former partner about the ear (6) |
| EXCLAIM | Cry out, finding former partner, about 50, before goal (7) |
| EXUDES | Releases former partner, united with Des |
| ACCOMPLICE | Partner about to return free ticket with story about cold |
