| TRANSFER | Schools wanting international umpire after retirement to bring a change |
| VICISSITUDE | CID use visit to bring a change of fortune (11) |
| REIFFEL | Paul ___, Former Australian test bowler, now an international umpire |
| ELIOT | Mostly worked hard after retirement to become a poet (5) |
| EVASION | Act of avoiding the answer after retirement to 'Do you spend?' (7) |
| RAINY | Such weather brings a change of air to New York |
| RT | Former NSW and Tasmania batsman promoted to international umpires panel 2008, initials (2) |
| APPEAL | Request made to umpire after a soft sound of thunder |
| PREFERRED | Liked better umpire after last chap made a mistake (9) |
| BACKGAMMON | Sponsor school wanting half-day for game |
| NARROW | New school wanting head that's strict (6) |
| PUTOUTTOGRASS | Sent into retirement to publish and to inform (3,3,2,5) |
| DEBASE | Partly decorates a bedroom in retirement to add value? Far from it! |
| AUSTRALIAN | Foreign national, first to attend university in retirement, to sail through non-technical studies (10) |
| BENFOSTER | English international goalkeeper who came out of retirement to help Wrexham secure promotion from the National League |
| RODTAYLOR | He came out of retirement to play Winston Churchill in "Inglorious Basterds" |
| RANGOON | Capital once generated by spy, briefly in retirement, to continue |
| ROAM | New Zealander finishing off in retirement to travel here and there (4) |
| SPOTON | What Page 3 girls had in retirement, to be precise |
| OLDAGEPENSIONER | One in retirement to ponder: alien goes haywire (3,3,9) |
