| BERATED | Scolded for changing a date to the end of October |
| PICKEDOFF | Removed one by one, scolded for changing leader (6,3) |
| SOLO | From Italian meaning "alone," the word in English can refer to a musical composition for a single voice or instrument or to a performance carried out alone. The oldest sense in English dates to the la |
| TRIAGE | A medical process of prioritising patients that dates to the First World War military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield (6) |
| JANITOR | Caretaker from the beginning of the year to the end of October (7) |
| ROWED | Scolded for having changed date to end of year (5) |
| HOLSTER | Case for a gun to blast hostel by the end of October (7) |
| DONATED | Gave the wrong date to the fellow |
| RATED | Scolded for getting end of year date wrong (5) |
| SQUALOR | Between the start and the end of October, the Queen's Head in Saul was refurbished, to sort out its grubbiness (7) |
| TUNER | Knob or dial for changing a radio or TV to another channel (5) |
| NOVEL | Book at the end of October for the Spanish (5) |
| BERYL | At the end of October, yell out for a gemstone |
| IDEST | That is a date to beware: the sixth of August |
| ATTUNED | Accustomed to making a date to go round a vessel? (7) |
| TRYST | Make a date to meet the attempt on the street (5) |
| IRS | Org. whose roots date to the Civil War |
| RON | Padma's date to the Hogwarts Yule Ball |
| SITARS | Instruments that date to the Mughal Empire |
| CANALBARGE | Fussy in rejecting, say by the end of October, the essentials of transport (5,5) |
