| HITLIST | Top ten perhaps, the ones to be done away with? |
| HOTLIST | Top-10, perhaps |
| INDEFEASIBLE | Fie, ban diesel! Unlikely not to be done away with (12) |
| DASTARDS | Main actor in Dad's Army - Army done away with? The rotters! (8) |
| ABOLISHED | Perilous hole is bad, should be done away with (9) |
| ERASED | Sad before literary style is done away with? (6) |
| ENDGAME | Situation in which bishops may have been done away with |
| REMOTEPOSITION | Job that can be done away from an office, or description of the starred answers based on the circled letters |
| POSTER | Bill, the man at the pillar-box, the one to be prosecuted? (6) |
| SPOON | When the cow jumped over the moon, who did the dish run away with? (5) |
| RIOTERS | Just the ones to rise after the start of the rebellion (7) |
| PUTDOWNROOTS | Establish residency ... or instructions on how to solve the starred clues (square ones, to be precise) |
| SETTLERS | The colonists are the ones to decide (8) |
| SALADS | Those lads from South Australia are the ones to meet the dishes! |
| ONTHEMEND | Those are the ones to finish with when getting better! (2,3,4) |
| HOBNOB | Hotplate and its switch are the ones to associate with we hear (3,3) |
| EXAMINERS | Are six men to become the ones to test us (9) |
| CLOUD | Nine is the one to be on! (5) |
| ANDANTE | Ace and ten, perhaps, to be deliberately played |
| LIGHT | Slightly less sly, and easy to get away with? (5) |
