| ABASHEDLY | Suffering embarrassment when skilfully taking a cast off (9) |
| ABSOLUTELY | Totally skilfully taking hold of small old stringed instrument (10) |
| INTHERED | I note response to where duke's suffering embarrassment |
| EXHAUSTED | Tired of former partner and husband, a cast-off that gets time inside (9) |
| TRANSIENT | Passing water through Stoke is an embarrassment when caught (9) |
| HERMIT | From the Greek for "solitary", a religious ascetic or other individual living in seclusion; a species of hummingbird foraging alone along a regular route; or, a type of crustacean inhabiting a cast-of |
| DROP | A cast-off, descent, fall, lowering or plummet of something such as an aitch, goal, name, stitch or a metaphorical brick or clanger (4) |
| WASHED | Hit the showers with a cast off (6) |
| HERMITCRAB | Crustacean that occupies a cast off shell (6,4) |
| HANDMEDOWN | Worker with Tapanui flu is unhappy to get a cast off (4-2-4) |
| SENDER | Poster creates no end of embarrassment when put up (6) |
| SAME | Identical embarrassment when husband is gone (4) |
| FLUSHED | Covered in embarrassment when washed away. (7) |
| FIGLEAF | Cover for embarrassment when gaffe left one reeling |
| FLY | It might lead to embarrassment when it's left open |
| MONOGRAMMED | Mammon to go red with embarrassment when initialled (11) |
| BLUSH | Show embarrassment when preside |
| STAIRWELL | Look hard, we're told, and skilfully for flight location (9) |
| INGENIOUS | Frank, you reportedly replaced one skilfully contrived (9) |
| MANOEUVRE | Move skilfully or carefully (9) |
