| BADLYOFF | Sinful heartless place is abandoned in a poor state (5-3) |
| GUILDERS | Drugs lie in a poor state in old Dutch capital (8) |
| LEATHERS | Biker's gear abandoned in a shelter (8) |
| PARLANCE | Care plan abandoned in a manner of speaking (8) |
| ROLYPOLY | Stout brewed poorly at heartless place (4-4) |
| OUTLYING | Trip around heartless place that's remote (8) |
| SCRAPPED | Fought being abandoned in a heap? |
| THEWORSEFORWEAR | Drunk perhaps is in a poor state of health (3,5,3,4) |
| ADULTERY | In which real duty is abandoned! (8) |
| SHIRALEE | Swag here is abandoned round a lake |
| OLDMANOFTHESEA | Unwanted burden, a loathsome fiend I abandoned in a panic (3,3,2,3,3) |
| SUCCINCT | Brief success extinct, once Essex town is abandoned |
| LEFTMOST | The most socialistic position is abandoned by the majority (8) |
| CLEMATIS | Climber's cleat is abandoned around mountain top (8) |
| SPENTFORCE | Top fencer's in a poor state, becoming has-been (5,5) |
| ATALOWEBB | In a poor state (2,1,3,3) |
| EXNIHILO | Without any ingredients, former partner's put on new nail polish after dreadful 'slap' is abandoned (2,6) |
| LEFTATTHEPOST | Is abandoned, in position, when the rest of the field set off (4,2,3,4) |
| SCHMO | Boring American is abandoned in split, needing love |
| RUMMY | Card game in a poor state with no Clubs (5) |
