| DEFERRAL | Right to interrupt federal organization to get a postponement (8) |
| JOKESTER | It's all right to interrupt one funny person or another |
| GLADRAGS | Young male has right to interrupt jokes in best outfit (4,4) |
| PUTOFF | To cause a postponement is to disconcert (3,3) |
| DEFERS | Yields to others" wishes and arranges a postponement (6) |
| PUT | & 9Ac. Disconcerted enough to arrange a postponement (3,3) |
| DEFER | Freed to make a postponement (5) |
| OFF | Disconcerted enough to arrange a postponement (3,3) |
| IDESOFAPRIL | Day to "beware," after a postponement |
| STOKE | It's all right to interrupt sitter every so often, to tend to the fire |
| VIRGIL | Poet was right to interrupt a wake (6) |
| PERON | Eva's husband had the right to interrupt a labourer (5) |
| LARYNX | Creator of speech has a right to interrupt good looker |
| BRUSSELSSPROUTS | Greens right to interrupt EU talks? (8,7) |
| ELKS | Fraternal organization to which every U.S. President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy belonged |
| CLIMATECHANGE | The greatest threat, according to the World Health Organization, to human health this century (7,6) |
| UNKINDNESS | International organization to sort head for cruelty (10) |
| CROSS | Red ___ and Red Crescent, an organization to aid victims of war |
| AQUA | Blue queen enters organization to quit drinking (4) |
| INSOUCIANT | Nonchalant in most of South describing spy organization to North (10) |
