| INTERFERE | Ultimately got free rein, mistakenly, to meddle |
| TRAP | Sting ultimately got to perform like Eminem? |
| DISCRETION | Record given free rein to free rein (10) |
| ANVIL | Ivan Lendl ultimately got a hammering here (5) |
| WRONGFOOT | Disadvantage involving lover, ultimately, got girlfriend upset also |
| SLENDER | Slim profits ultimately got by loan provider |
| AIDA | Opera Verdi composed pasha ultimately got |
| TRUMPSUIT | Ultimately got behind businessman for key aspect of contract |
| LIQUIDITY | Arachne ultimately got by on £51 in cash (9) |
| TOGS | Clothes from stores ultimately got sent back |
| SATED | It ultimately got my boss fed up, you might say (5) |
| STIMULANT | Some caustic Disney heroine ultimately got shot in the arm |
| MESSABOUT | Informal term meaning dilly-dally, footle, potter or tinker, like Ratty in boats, say; to meddle or interfere; to caper, gambol, skylark or play the fool; or, to carry on, philander, romp or generally |
| TAMPER | Politician to tear off outside to meddle (6) |
| FREER | Refer mistakenly to being more liberal (5) |
| MILITIA | I mail it mistakenly to body of citizen soldiers (7) |
| SPIES | Sees as pessimists mistakenly, to start with (5) |
| SLATTERNS | Rents out at last, mistakenly, to very poor housekeepers (9) |
| GREENTEA | Agree mistakenly to stock English books and drink (5,3) |
| STIFLE | Is felt mistakenly to suppress (6) |
