| SARONGS | Snags or ruins garments |
| TRICKY | Involving snags or difficulties (6) |
| SARIS | Oddly, soap ruins garments |
| RASES | Demolishes or ruins, in a way (5) |
| RESTORED | Desert or ruins made good |
| BLIP | A sharp rap or tap; a repetitive drip or electronically generated pip; a dot on a radar target screen; its accompanying sound; or, a glitch, snag or other unforeseen irregularity (4) |
| NOG | Old word for a peg of wood; a snag or stump; strong Norfolk ale or beer; or, a flip-like drink (3) |
| CURTAINS | Word for drapes or portieres; or, alluding to the closing or falling of these, the end, death or ruin (8) |
| HITA | Words before snag or homer |
| GROANS | Is unhappy about the odd snag, or setback, in (6) |
| STUB | Word for a felled bole/trunk, thus a butt, counterfoil, pencil end, scut, snag or other remaining portion (4) |
| SALVAGE | Rescue or save from wreckage or ruin (7) |
| BREAK | Make or ___ : cause success or ruin of? |
| DOCTOR | Cook or ruin fish in setback (6) |
| PERISHED | Suffered death or ruin (8) |
| DOFOR | Cause the death or ruin of (2,3) |
| PERISHES | Suffers death or ruin (8) |
| ROUTINE | Unite or ruin practice (7) |
| DEATHKNELL | Thing that heralds end or ruin |
| PERISH | Suffer death or ruin |
