| DEADWEIGHT | Ship's heaviest load shifting added endless delay, we hear |
| PAPERWEIGHT | It heavily controls author's output - hence publication delay, we hear |
| WEIGHTLIFTING | Delay, we hear, removing Olympic event |
| FLYWEIGHT | Pugilist has travel delay, we hear (9) |
| WEIGHT | Heaviness through delay, we hear (6) |
| MIDDLEWEIGHT | Intermediate delay, we hear, for pugnacious sportsman |
| IMPAIRED | Defective express in endless delay (8) |
| ERRATIC | Unreliable City, letting in one after endless delay from the back |
| ELASTICBAND | Endless delay with staff cut by company, one is stretched (7,4) |
| ETERNAL | Endless delay regularly besetting seabird by lake |
| DETAIL | Endless delay with large catalogue |
| WAIKIKI | Endless delay ? equipment twice running short in Hawaiian location |
| LAPSE | Please, deal with endless delay (5) |
| PAMELA | For a woman, turning map upside down may bring endless delay (6) |
| OSMIC | Containing the heaviest known metal |
| EPEE | Heaviest of the Olympic swords |
| GRANITIC | Acknowledge a lot of rocks, including one of the heaviest rocks (8) |
| EIDER | UK's heaviest but fastest flying duck (5) |
| TON | Weight surpassed by North America's heaviest pumpkin |
| ASTHICKASTHIEVES | Very friendly, but has heaviest stick around |
