| SAHIB | Title a bishop without work engineered (5) |
| ARBITER | Judge a bishop without taste (7) |
| ABSENCE | Want a bishop (without being Italian) to lead church |
| DARCY | Man of pride in title, a match for Elizabeth |
| ELIOT | Poet from whom Waugh got his novel title "A Handful of Dust" |
| ITNOW | Words that follow Buy to give the title a show presented by Brian Conley in 2018 (2,3) |
| LOPES | Man without work strides along (5) |
| DEPOT | Man without work returning to base (5) |
| DOPES | Some of the French without work ___ stupid folk (5) |
| EVENT | Indeed top without work? It happens! (5) |
| TROLL | Imp finds slattern without work (5) |
| GROUP | Set and develop without work (5) |
| PENCE | Loose change tor writer to cope without work (5) |
| SATAN | First job-finder for those without work? (5) |
| TRITE | Lacking originality and slightest of tenacity, author is without work (5) |
| YIELD | Give year to flourish without work (5) |
| ARGON | Chemical element 18, named from the Greek for 'without work' (5) |
| SWOOP | Attack soprano without work (5) |
| SWEETLITTLE | Restyles, restyles my Wet title, a Wet title? (5,6,7) |
| MYSTERY | Restyles, restyles my Wet title, a Wet title? (5,6,7) |
