| 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 |
| JANITOR | Caretaker from the beginning of the year to the end of October (7) |
| HOLSTER | Case for a gun to blast hostel by the end of October (7) |
| SQUALOR | Between the start and the end of October, the Queen's Head in Saul was refurbished, to sort out its grubbiness (7) |
| NOVEL | Book at the end of October for the Spanish (5) |
| BERYL | At the end of October, yell out for a gemstone |
| TRIAGE | A medical process of prioritising patients that dates to the First World War military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield (6) |
| CANALBARGE | Fussy in rejecting, say by the end of October, the essentials of transport (5,5) |
| DISTRICTNURSE | The care-giver is instructed wrongly to appear about the end of October (8,5) |
| HALLOWEEN | Hotel to permit central screening at the end of October (9) |
| PUMPKIN | Ask the Family - it's shown at the end of October |
| PUTTHECLOCKBACK | Regress, as the UK does towards the end of October |
| TRIED | Attempted to get connected around the end of October (5) |
| EMILYBRONTE | Sister of Anne Boleyn I met roughly around the end of October |
| ENTRANT | Someone coming in to replace tenant around the end of October (7) |
| SCORPIO | Zodiac sign for the end of October (7) |
| PRIORITY | Sympathy for suffering around Brazilian city at the end of October gets precedence (8) |
| ROWED | Scolded for having changed date to end of year (5) |
