| OUTWEIGH | To prevail, we ought somehow to retain independence (8) |
| MOORINGS | To prevail, we ought somehow to secure one (8) |
| SHOTGUN | Weapon ought somehow to pierce tin (7) |
| GAME | Manage somehow to retain place in the grand scheme of things (4,4) |
| PLAN | Manage somehow to retain place in the grand scheme of things (4,4) |
| TRELLIS | Tries somehow to retain two lines in framework for plants (7) |
| ASCLEARASABELL | Callas's able somehow to retain musical sense with purest tone (2,5,2,1,4) |
| PERSUADE | To prevail on someone by urging to do something, is to do what (8) |
| YORKTOWN | Royal house to prevail, though losing current battle |
| INBATTLE | Popular struggle to prevail on the front line (2,6) |
| UNIVERSE | For tertiary education to prevail, poetry should contain all that is |
| WHENPEOPLEARELOOKING | 'We ought never to do wrong ___' |
| LETSBEFAIR | "We ought to give credit where credit is due" |
| KAFKA | Franz who wrote "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us" |
| SMALLMERCIES | Write about Mel's miracles - we ought to be thankful for them (5,7) |
| REIGN | Bad weather, we hear, to prevail |
| TAKESOMEBEATING | Bad boy at school would have had to be hard to prevail against (4,4,7) |
| FREEREIN | Not bound to prevail say without restraint (4,4) |
| TWIN | One of a pair starts to prevail (4) |
| RULEOUT | Don't allow government to prevail! (4,3) |
