| MICHAELJACKSON | SHIFT jams - almost hit OK + CANCEL for dead icon ... (7,7) |
| CHERRYGARCIA | Ice cream flavor honoring a Grateful Dead icon |
| LOCO | Jam almost over, round the bend |
| ALLRIGHTNOW | Free hit OK, boxing utterly new (3,5,3) |
| YES | First third of Beatles hit OK (3) |
| STRIKEDOWN | Make void hit fine feathers (6,4) |
| FEELIN | Joe Cocker hit, "... Alright" (6') |
| FRANCHITTI | Spanish dictator almost hit note for 1Ac 9Ac (10) |
| CONK | Hit - almost hit back (4) |
| CLOCHE | Almost hit on the head by a male for a hat on the head of a female (6) |
| PARTIAL | Biased people, clergy excepted, almost hit back (7) |
| ESCHERICHIA | Dutch artist, 99, almost hit by a type of bacteria (11) |
| GOLDSMITH | Former standard almost hit by hard writer |
| COPPERSMITH | Craftsman police officer almost hit hard |
| CLOUD | Almost hit daughter coming out of one's shower? (5) |
| TINSMITH | Metalworker can almost hit hard (8) |
| FIB | Lie here, and almost hit back (3) |
| JUDITH | Ms Keppel from Eggheads and girl almost hit out (6) |
| LAMESHOT | Flier maybe almost hit, nearly destroyed (4,4) |
| ALGORITHM | Old VP almost hit out against end-of-term procedure (9) |
