| VEST | Sides with venture capitalist taking the shirt off your back to expose this (4) |
| BLOUSE | Barrister makes use of nothing and takes the shirt off your back (6) |
| ATROCITY | I act with Tory somehow to expose this cruelty (8) |
| INTROUBLE | Start down - you moved left with your back to the wall (2,7) |
| OTIS | Ring rest back to expose a US inventor |
| DEAR | Just begin a letter thus, to get Jack off your back if you must! (4,4) |
| JOHN | Just begin a letter thus, to get Jack off your back if you must! (4,4) |
| MYRTLE | Make efforts to cut tree back to expose shrub (6) |
| MURAL | Artwork you'll miss if your back's to the wall (5) |
| DARESSALAAM | With venture, mother and a girl raised capital once |
| STRIP | Expose this kind of cartoon (5) |
| PEANUT | Hope a nutritionist exposes this butter ingredient |
| GIVE | "He'd ___ you the shirt off his back" |
| HOOD | English poet, humorist and journalist who wrote Odes and Addresses to Great People, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies and The Song of the Shirt (4) |
| RITA | It is fair dinkum! Remove the shirt to find the girl (4) |
| TOOKTOTHE | Removed the shirt off my back for the laundry (4,2,3,8) |
| CLEANERS | Removed the shirt off my back for the laundry (4,2,3,8) |
| BONO | One-named rocker, venture capitalist, and humanitarian |
| MARC | Venture capitalist Andreessen |
| THAT | The one with the shirt-like titfer? (4) |
