| ONUS | Responsibility, and where ours lies (4) |
| TAKEOVER | Assume responsibility and head for safety, avoiding cold (4,4) |
| DUTYFREE | No responsibility and less taxing (4,4) |
| TAKECHARGE | Assume responsibility and accept payment (4,6) |
| WALKOUT | Abandon a responsibility and leave (4,3) |
| ONTHEMEND | Their responsibility and objective: getting better (2,3,4) |
| GOOFFDUTY | Finish with responsibility and come to hate import tax? (2,3,4) |
| HAVEALOTONONESPLATE | Bear much responsibility and prepare to get stuffed! |
| BUCKLES | Collapses from responsibility and sleeps intermittently (7) |
| PLEADINNOCENT | Deny responsibility and request racket without money (5,8) |
| TAKINGCHARGE | Assuming responsibility and accepting payment |
| SLACKS | Avoids responsibility and work (6) |
| ESG | Corporate responsibility and sustainability inits. |
| REMITTANCE | Area of responsibility and way of thinking needs no introduction to settlement (10) |
| EGGTIMER | Sweetheart, riding horse, recalls responsibility and lets people know breakfast's ready |
| EXPLOITABLE | "Reporting the news is a privilege and a responsibility, and it is not ____" (Meet Joe Black) |
| LAND | Smiths "A Rush and a Push and the ___ Is Ours" |
| BOTH | ___ of ours: Yours and mine: (4) |
| BEAN | Ronnie Phelan in This City Is Ours (4,4) |
| SEAN | Ronnie Phelan in This City Is Ours (4,4) |
