| JACKSPRAT | The man's a fool - he stuck to a fat-free diet |
| VOLE | Rodent similar to a fat mouse |
| CLOTHED | Being a fool, he had quickly got dressed (7) |
| MELISSA | Married man a fool around a girl (7) |
| SPRAT | Fish on a fat-free diet (5) |
| EDIE | A fat free diet is too much for her |
| BICYCLES | "The future's all yours, you lousy ...," said Butch Cassidy in the 60s movie (and he stuck to horses |
| CLOTHES | Like a fool, he's put on the garments (7) |
| WORKEDFORPEANUTS | George Washington Carver faced much adversity, but he stuck to his beliefs and... |
| HIS | The man's a bit of a sophist |
| REED | Grass as part of fat-free diet (4) |
| DIFFERENTIATE | Change in fat-free diet that's hopeless |
| JACKITIN | First court card stuck to a tin to finish the job? (4,2,2) |
| PLACEINHISTORY | Put in the man's a Conservative, with it he will never be forgotten (5,2,7) |
| BETHESDA | Chapel? I'll wager the man's a lawyer! |
| ADHERED | He dared to join and now he's stuck with it (7) |
| HEEL | Jack's lean (he left a fat-free order) (4) |
| NOSETOTAIL | Waste-free diet ... and the progression of the last words of the starred clues' answers |
| BARNACLE | Carla and Ben dislodged a limpet stuck to a rock (8) |
| STEADYASSHEGOES | Seen as a regular fool, he continues on the same course (6,2,3,4) |
