| TEMPTPROVIDENCE | Try one' s luck against Fate and lure one to furnish NEC perhaps (5,10) |
| BEET | Try one’s luck introducing European vegetable |
| ENTICE | Lure one to creep away from centrepiece (6) |
| RAIL | Inveigh against fate |
| LANCELOT | *He had a weapon against fate (8) |
| DOONESLEVELBEST | Try one's hardest, as a tower block cleaner may? (2,4,5,4) |
| BUTTERFLYFISHES | Dairy product uses a rod and lure? |
| EVERYNOWANDTHEN | He'd try one new van out occasionally (5,3,3,4) |
| THESUNALSORISES | Novel astonishes and lures possibly (3,3,4,5) |
| PERSONALITY | One's distinctive character makes one's pal try one out (11) |
| IRRITATE | One writing to judge about it - is that to try one's patience? (8) |
| ADIEU | Share Jill Masterson's fate, and it's goodbye! (5) |
| LOTTO | Race into game of cards, where one might try one's luck (5) |
| LEAVETOCHANCE | Try one's luck perhaps with a Bandon cheat - Con Cook (5,2,6) |
| ERLKING | Supernatural creature of German folklore said to inhabit the Black Forest and lure children to their deaths (3,4) |
| HOMEWARE | Crockery, cushions, ornaments, utensils and other domestic trappings with which to furnish one's abode (8) |
| DIRECTRULE | No regional government to guide and lure away (6,4) |
| PLATH | Poet and novelist of whom Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, "Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible" |
| FATALISM | Doctrine that all events are subject to fate, and happen by unavoidable necessity (8) |
| BAIT | What's used to lure one inside club (4) |