| WINOUT | Tackling university, sadly I won't succeed (3,3) |
| TURMOIL | Work hard tackling university room disarray (7) |
| COHEIR | Heroic struggling - one won't succeed alone |
| OUTBID | Sadly, I doubt Man City can be at the moment! (6) |
| SALUKI | Sadly I sulk about a dog (6) |
| ICARUS | A cruise ending prematurely, sadly I drowned (6) |
| ALERTS | Warnings from realist sadly I ignored (6) |
| ALASNO | "Sadly, I must decline" |
| LEADBALLOON | Exemplar of something that won't succeed |
| FATCHANCE | You won't succeed with big opportunity (3,6) |
| NOHOPER | He won't succeed, finding work in heron management (2-5) |
| IMITATIVE | I am at it - sadly, I have to be unoriginal (9) |
| NOWINSITUATIONS | You won't succeed in these jobs by knowing insiders (2-3,10) |
| INFIDEL | Sadly, I find the Spanish one lacking in faith |
| NEMESIS | Sadly I seem caught between extremes my downfall? (7) |
| IGNOBLE | Sadly, I belong in a lower category |
| ROADHOG | Hairy traveller? Good hair, sadly, I may be lacking (4,3) |
| LADYSMAID | Sadly, I am on death row with superior servant (5,4) |
| PANIC | Lose one's nerve parking? Sadly I can (5) |
| FILTEROUT | Sadly I left course unfinished, getting strain (6,3) |
