| SEAMSTER | Sea monster, not working for the Knight of the shears (8) |
| ORCHARD | Sea monster not yielding to pressure among fruit trees (7) |
| SEMPSTER | One of the words for a knight of the shears, sartor or tailor (8) |
| TAILORING | The trade of a sartor, seamster or snip; or, the cut of the garments made by said knight of the shears (9) |
| BEAUMONT | Francis -; dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher on The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Maid's Tragedy (8) |
| LANCELOT | Which one of the Knights of the Round Table fell in love with Guinevere? (8) |
| COAXDOWN | Persuade to descend, soft drinks not working for the audience (4,4) |
| EINSTEIN | Scientist, one mistakenly called a monster, not honest about ego (8) |
| LITERATI | Latin repetition not working for bookworms (8) |
| FLINTOFF | Stone used to produce spark not working for Top Gear presenter Andrew (8) |
| LOHENGRIN | Arthurian knight of German legend known as the Knight of the Swan (9) |
| HOLIDAYING | Not working for the rest of the year (10) |
| ENTREPOT | Peter not working for warehouse (8) |
| ONSTRIKE | It's not working for one hiding ruffled skirt (2,6) |
| CREEPERS | Native Indian person not working for Virginia and Ivy, say |
| TAILORS | "Knights of the shears", such as those in practice on Savile Row (7) |
| GAWAIN | One of the most famous of the knights of the Arthurian Romances (6) |
| DEADSEA | It's not working for the school in the Jordan valley (4,3) |
| IDLE | Is not working for the papers long - what's the point? (4) |
| BLEU | Cordon -; derived from a blue ribbon worn by the knights of the Holy Ghost, a term for cookery of the highest class (4) |
