| COMMISERATIONS | Some morticians trained to offer expressions of sympathy (14) |
| DISCRIMINATION | Mortician is implicated in racket with subtlety (14) |
| THEREBUTFORTHE | Initially clap hands, then boo off Gertrude The Great as expression of sympathy (5,3,3,3,5,2,3) |
| CONDOLENCES | Was close to getting conned, when about to send expressions of sympathy (11) |
| AHS | Expressions of sympathy (3) |
| THERE | Present given after the end of August as expression of sympathy (5) |
| HARDCHEESE | Expression of sympathy, cruel thing to say when being shot |
| AWKWARD | Clumsy expression of sympathy uttered by king to person under his protection |
| EVERYBODY | All separately entrusted to the care of the mortician? (9) |
| IRONIC | Sarcastic morticians drop mast (6) |
| ONEHEARSETOWN | Site of a mortician's monopoly? |
| ROMANTICISING | Painting a rosy picture of vile mortician's gin (13) |
| EMBALMERS | Morticians who treat corpses with preservatives (9) |
| DITHERER | Princess's partial expression of sympathy initially reassured faint heart (8) |
| THEREFORE | Expression of sympathy yelled on course, thus (9) |
| ETHER | Soporific expression of sympathy finally put forward (5) |
| BOTHERED | Troubled person receives expression of sympathy |
| ASH | Expression of sympathy about son's remains |
| INTHERED | Favoured expression of sympathy with daughter under financial difficulty? (2,3,3) |
| THEREABOUTS | Expression of sympathy by Australian over boxing matches in a rough sense (11) |
