| PROLONG | Spin it out as professional will yearn to do (7) |
| BURN | What arsonists yearn to do (4) |
| PROMISE | Guarantee professional will find note on cover of score |
| REEKED | Smelled of smoke as one would spin it out when in the red (6) |
| LONGSTOP | Yearns to do better than, as a fielder (4,4) |
| HOROSCOPES | Forecasts chess professional will run rings around ... (10) |
| SURREAL | RA rules it out as Dali's work (7) |
| RUSSIAN | This sort of roulette runs as one spins it (7) |
| APTONYM | Especially appropriate name, such as professional poker player Chris Moneymaker's surname |
| CENTRIFUGE | It spins it out in the process of separation (10) |
| ELABORATE | To enlarge on a tale, bore spins it out (9) |
| SADOMASOCHISTIC | Suffering so, a comic hits out, liking to dish it out as well as take it? (15) |
| OMIT | Leave it out, as it's got nothing to do with short prison sentence being raised? (4) |
| LETSSLIP | Spells it out, as it leads to a revelation (4,4) |
| PROTOTYPE | What the model on trial as professional secretary will do? (9) |
| FORGETTABLE | Make false notes to battle it out, as can be put out of mind (11) |
| REEK | Right to eke it out as there's a smell of smoke (4) |
| RECORD | Put it down or spin it! (6) |
| NITWIT | Spin it without referring to numpty (6) |
| PLAYFORMONEY | Gamble as professional sportsmen do? (4,3,5) |
