| UPANDDOWN | The mug failed to start and is unhappy and unstable (2,3,4) |
| STARVE | Lack food when harvest fails to start and is disrupted (6) |
| HUGGED | The rugged one gets a new start and is embraced (6) |
| DIRECTION | North-West Princess failed to start construction (9) |
| BERTILLON | Criminologist and anthropomorphist who invented the mug shot (9) |
| SIGHTREAD | Have no time for rehearsal? Sound unhappy and move deliberately, perhaps |
| STOOPDOWN | Rose, unhappy, and withdrew (5,4) |
| TOMATO | What mother has to eat, to start and to finish (6) |
| ONTAP | How the conductor prepares the orchestra to start and gets his beer (2,3) |
| ENLIVEN | Figures to start and finish with the same points, to stir things up (7) |
| ALTERED | Amended to 'Walter and Ted failed to start' (7) |
| ERRATIC | Fix the art, Eric - it's inconsistent and unstable (7) |
| HIGHEXPLOSIVE | Gelignite, say, is both smelly and unstable (4,9) |
| DISMAL | Unhappy and mad, is sorting out the pupil (6) |
| DRAINER | Split in half and turned over, Cunard liner fails to start and will be next to sink (7) |
| CENTENNIAL | One hundred to start and fifty to finish for every hundred years. (10) |
| CAN | Is able to start and finish a dance |
| TRADE | ... buying and selling to start and get even parts |
| OVARY | Ordered to start and change the egg store (5) |
| AIRPORTS | Parrot is working out where to start and finish flights (8) |
