| TANGRAM | There's going be to trouble from the start with this anagram missing a letter and it's why the Chinese find it puzzling (7) |
| BABUSHKA | A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine. |
| PITY | It's mine and it's why I need your sympathy (4) |
| PSI | A letter and its addendum I added |
| EPISTLE | A letter and it's to Peel |
| SVEN | Name that's a number missing a letter |
| LIPOGRAMMATIC | Missing a letter of magical import, remarkably |
| NOEL | When we're getting lots of cards but missing a letter? (4) |
| BRONCHITIS | Born in difficulty, child is bearing a trouble from the start, leading to a complaint (10) |
| LEFTATTHEPOST | Had no chance of winning from the start with what Labour stands for according to leaders from newspaper (4,2,3,4) |
| ISNT | Scarlett maintained, at the beginning of Gone With The Wind, "Besides, there ... going to be a war" |
| HEDONIST | That man from the Mafia is trouble from the start for pleasure seeker (8) |
| TRUMPET | Heard coming out of jazz club, foreign politician in genuine trouble from the start (7) |
| HYPHEN | Just a line to say there's going to be a merger |
| PRIMORDIAL | Being there from the start with a proper golden face (10) |
| MERGING | Bringing them all together from the start with macaroons and ginger nuts (7) |
| ALPHABET | Letters mixed up in this anagram of "Paul has to be the foremost of pillocks!" (8,4) |
| LOBBYIST | Bill's pusher in reception area is trouble from the start (8) |
| EXCLAMATIONMARK | After a romantic meal prepared with unknown ingredient, kissing to start with this! |
| BIRTHRIGHT | A person may be entitled to start with this (10) |
