| BALLAST | Second rate, poor Aston Villa, losing 5-1 on aggregate |
| ILLATEASE | Embarrassed Villa, losing five, subject to banter (3,2,4) |
| VICTORY | 5-1 on two Conservatives getting win (7) |
| OPERATOR | Machinist's work rate poor (8) |
| SATSUMA | Perched on aggregate before a fruit tree (7) |
| ASSUME | Take on aggregate during sea trip (6) |
| STRIPPOKER | Game you can barely play if you keep losing (5-5) |
| RECAL | Opposition starts to reform in vain after losing (5) |
| RIVAL | Opposition starts to reform in vain after losing (5) |
| FORGO | Pro with golf ball to accept losing (5) |
| BEARD | Van Dyke perhaps recklessly braved losing five (5) |
| LEVEL | Neither winning, nor losing (5) |
| ATSEA | Lost return match, losing five-one (2,3) |
| SQUALL | Sudden blow: team losing five hundred pounds |
| CUTSNOICE | Stops the novice losing five, but it makes no difference (4,2,3) |
| INDICATE | To point out and justify losing five (8) |
| EARNEST | Arden set out, losing five hundred deposit (7) |
| REACTED | Responded to the hapless dead cert losing five hundred (7) |
| WESTINDIES | Mae, for example, in dives losing five Caribbean islands (4,6) |
| ROCKAROUND | Article about security amid aggregate from Comets (film) (4,6,3,5) |
