| GOOFFATHALFCOCK | Take ill-considered action and leave a drink set up around end of summit (2,3,2,4,4) |
| THRASHING | Object, having to take ill-considered punishment? |
| SKIP | Leave a drink without potassium (4) |
| TEMPT | Entice the heartless politician before end of summit |
| TRUE | Genuine regret after end of summit (4) |
| PISTOLSHOT | Opening drink set up: excited to get a slug? |
| GULAG | Drink set up outside a detention centre |
| COWSLIP | Perhaps Ayrshire drink set up plant (7) |
| SPLITSONESSIDES | Cracks up and leaves a ship on 15th March? (6,4,5) |
| SEI | A whale is to turn up around end of June (3) |
| RINSE | Get up around end of afternoon - a wash-out! (5) |
| MOTOR | A car space taken up around end of crescent (5) |
| UNDERPLAYS | Doesn't stress when badly snarled up around end of motorway (10) |
| PARK | Word for a space occupied by artillery or wagons, hence a verb for "halt and leave a vehicle"; or, in other senses, an estate's pleasure ground, a public garden or a playground (4) |
| TRIBE | Clan I bet dressed up around end of December (5) |
| TOYS | Drunk turning up around end of party flirts |
| DISTORTED | Inspector laid up around end of August is misrepresented (9) |
| TOOTH | A chomper from your mouth that you put under your pillow while you sleep that a fairy might take and leave a little money in its place |
| PAWNS | Sets up loan to exchange (set up around completion of transaction) (5) |
| OWNGOALS | Confess and leave a case of less expensive errors (3,5) |
