| RESIGNS | Steps down, sometimes for personal reasons |
| AGASSI | 1996 gold medalist who dropped out of the Olympics for personal reasons |
| CHRISTINA | Swedish queen known as 'Minerva of the North', who caused a shockwave by abdicating for personal reasons (9) |
| VESTED | ____ interest, one normally supporting the continuance of a system for personal reasons (6) |
| VESTEDINTEREST | Personal reason for involvement in underwear? |
| PARTLET | A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast. (7) |
| STRICTLY | With discipline sometimes for the birds (8) |
| NOOSE | Oscar using something hooked sometimes for a coat hanger |
| LIMO | Airport transportation, sometimes, for short |
| REPO | Tow truck attachment sometimes, for short |
| PTSD | Fighting result, sometimes, for short |
| EYES | Raisins, sometimes, for a snowman |
| POEM | "Why Some People Be Mad at Me Sometimes," for one |
| VAGRANCY | Crime of 35- Down, sometimes |
| AXETOGRIND | Doing extra obfuscated personal reason to get involved |
| TSAR | Celebrity's son steps down for the old aristocrat (4) |
| STAIRCASE | Steps up, or steps down? |
| ABDICATES | Looking back, arrange for a police department to follow graduate leading to steps down (9) |
| BAIRN | Steps down from deck using method following mate (12) |
| COMPANIONWAY | Steps down from deck using method following mate (12) |
