| FRAILTY | Try and fail badly, showing weakness (7) |
| GOTOPOT | Approach snooker table and fail badly |
| COMEACROPPER | Without first two grades, take up barbering and fail badly (4,1,7) |
| INFLAME | Anger when men fail badly (7) |
| TANKARD | Mug is to fail badly a right dunce at first (7) |
| THOU | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| WHEREART | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| OBROTHER | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1,7,5, 3,4) |
| BOMBAST | Pompous talk has to fail badly since having little time |
| AIRFOIL | I succeed in giving passengers a lift or I fail badly |
| TAILFIN | Fail badly to break metal forming old car decoration |
| FALSIFY | Misrepresent disheartened Freddy, fails badly inside (7) |
| SLIP | Try and fail to walk on ice |
| TANKS | Cheers when husband quits and fails badly (5) |
| RENEGUE | Turn green, use no sulphur, and fail to follow suit (7) |
| UNSTUCK | Come ____, expression meaning 'to experience difficulties and fail' (7) |
| MISSTEP | Go astray, and fail to get favourite back (7) |
| CRAFTILY | A large number try and fail somehow, in a cunningly deceptive way (8) |
| BACKOUT | Reverse the car and fail to honour a commitment (4,3) |
| UNDERGO | Suffer, and fail to reach destination? |
