| ELECTRICBLANKET | This may prove a comfort to one who's just retired (8,7) |
| OLDHAND | Start off to give touching comfort to one who's been through it all (3,4) |
| RECENTCENTER | Basketball player who's just retired? |
| WHOWASIT | Question to one who's just hung up the phone |
| NEWYOU | Description to one who's just made lifestyle changes, with "the" |
| THATSNOTCORRECT | Comment to one who just slipped |
| FAIRHEAD | Long-serving nurse who just retired from Casualty's ED (7,8) |
| CHARLIE | Long-serving nurse who just retired from Casualty's ED (7,8) |
| WHERETO | Question to one who just got in |
| DNATEST | This may prove one's innocence |
| SUCCOUR | Give comfort to one easily fooled, we hear (7) |
| ANODYNE | Done any wrong? This may prove soothing (7) |
| CONSOLE | Bring comfort to one at the organ key-desk (7) |
| BLOTTINGPAPER | Making inky mess on the page, this may prove absorbing (8,5) |
| SOCLOSE | 65-Across, to one who just missed |
| HOTWATERBOTTLES | They're a comfort to those retiring in deep trouble taking courage on top of stoicism (3-5,7) |
| SECURITYBLANKET | Collateral for what's left in financial institution in Paris - and it's a comfort for the very young (8,7) |
| DOGBLANKET | Work at and learn to comprehend something needing to be filled in - a comfort to a setter? (3,7) |
| RELIEF | It's a comfort to official holding on to story (6) |
| CHAIR | Run the meeting - it's a comfort to anglers (5) |
