| SHY | Soprano heavily marginalised is retiring (3) |
| DRY | Hardened director rarely marginalised (3) |
| BOWINGOUT | Missile launcher, because of disease, is retiring gracefully (6,3) |
| STEVE | Grid great Young, who is retiring |
| TPIR | Show Bob Barker is retiring from, for short |
| BASHFUL | Party close to well fed is retiring (7) |
| PENSION | Writer is retiring on ? this? (7) |
| ERASMUS | Great scholar of arithmetic is retiring (7) |
| CUSHY | Easy, comfortable copper is retiring (5) |
| HESITATE | Be unsure that man is retiring from foreign museum (8) |
| SHIER | Comparatively bashful and quiet - that is, retiring, initially (5) |
| FLESHY | Plump little man is retiring and bashful |
| OBLATIONS | One general is retiring from duties and sacrifices (9) |
| DEER | Buck found in Rush is retiring (4) |
| STATESIDE | In America, say, chief journalist is retiring (9) |
| SHYLOCK | Moneylender who is retiring with some hair (7) |
| TIMID | Dark Italian model from the south is retiring (5) |
| DETTORI | Italian jockey who is retiring this year (7,7) |
| FRANKIE | Italian jockey who is retiring this year (7,7) |
| RESERVED | Having saved, is retiring (8) |
