| FALLOVERONESELF | Take a lot of trouble to make all novels free of spelling mistakes (4,4,7) |
| THETHREERS | Basic education, with a couple of spelling mistakes (3,5,2) |
| RUSTPROOF | Get Proust for novel free from corruption (9) |
| RELEASE | See real novel, free |
| WAITINGFORGODOT | Drama working in a restaurant having omitted to take a lot of drugs (7,3,5) |
| CASTIRONSKILLET | It can take a lot of heat |
| DOONESLEVELBEST | Note loveless Deb struggling to make all possible efforts? (2,4,5,4) |
| TRANSLITERATION | Process of spelling, say, "nyet" |
| BELONG | Take a lot of time to become a member |
| AGENDA | Take a lot of time and trouble with programme (6) |
| USURERS | They take a lot of interest as drug addicts outside university start to rave (7) |
| IMPLEMENTS | Simple men take a bit of trouble to create tools (10) |
| ITSAMESS | "This will take a lot of work to fix" |
| CHOPS | Where food's concerned, they take a lot of licking |
| INCUR | Bring on what may take a lot of curing (5) |
| LOTTERIES | They take a lot of chances when they toil among the trees |
| FLAG | Cigarette holds start of lung-trouble to make one droop (4) |
| RAISEHELL | Trapping fifty, healer is fraudulently to make a lot of trouble (5,4) |
| STANDARDISE | Emblematic flag is the last to make all of the same quality |
| LUXEMBOURG | Tiny European country became 1st in world to make all public transit free (10) |