| DUNCE | State, owing to being beset, of the poor scholar (5) |
| TEDDY | Bear being beset ultimately by troubled water |
| AGITATED | Publicity about private gallery being beset by trouble |
| MEKHITARIST | Monk greeting being beset by awfully stark time |
| RETCH | Some of the poor wretches may try to be sick (5) |
| ORATE | Speak of the poor at every opportunity (5) |
| DONOR | One who gives, let's assume, to some of the poor |
| MAUNDY | '_ _ _ _ Thursday' - the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor in commemoration of Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet at the last supper |
| INDEBT | Owing to being behind, unfortunately missed third and fourth of instalments (2,4) |
| KNIGHTS | Members of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon |
| KNIGHTSTEMPLAR | Members of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon |
| TEMPLAR | Members of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (7,7) |
| OVERDUE | Finished, owing to being late (7) |
| DUENNA | Girl returned first owing to being a chaperone |
| TERESA | Humanitarian Mother ... worked for the poorest of the poor in the city of Calcutta |
| DUFFER | Pudding about to be brought back for poor scholar |
| UNSETTLED | Owing to being fidgety (9) |
| EAT | "Lemon tree, very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet; But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to ...," sang Peter Paul %26 Mary in 1965 |
| POTTERSFIELD | Wizard's sphere of influence in the dead centre of the poor man's last home (6'1,5) |
| ASSISI | Birthplace of St. Clare, the founder of the Poor Sisters |
