| LOSEONESBALANCE | Suffer financial depletion, just before the fall? |
| TRIPPER | Person enjoying holiday just before the fall? |
| TRIP | Excursion often occurring just before the fall |
| SUMMER | Totter in the time before the fall? (6) |
| HUBRIS | One shrub to be trimmed before the fall? (6) |
| EDEN | Paradise, before the Fall? (4) |
| SHEETOFICE | Winter blanket produced before the fall? |
| CATCHCOLD | Suffer financial loss ___ i.e. to do this to get diamonds? |
| GOTOTHEWALL | Suffer financial ruin (2,2,3,4) |
| THEGARDENOFEDEN | Occupied the characters before The Fall and The Paradise (3,6,2,4) |
| FEELTHEPINCH | Suffer financial privation |
| RUNINTODEBT | Suffer financial problem and turn in to bed in a nervous state (3,4,4) |
| OZONEHOLE | A depletion in the stratospheric layer over the Antarctic (5,4) |
| DEFOLIANTS | Chemicals - stained of initial leaf destruction - leave leaves fall before the fall! (10) |
| SLIP | It may come before the fall |
| STORMCLOUD | Indicator of trouble to come before the fall (5,5) |
| GUMDROP | Sweet face's back before the fall (7) |
| SINLESS | Like Adam and Eve before the fall |
| PARADISE | Pride, as a fault, one enjoyed before the fall |
| PIT | What goes before the fall |
