| STEPDOWN | Unhappy after the favourites return and quit (4-4) |
| LYINGLOW | Unhappy after telling untruths and keeping out of sight (5,3) |
| VANQUISH | Vanish and quit halfway through conquer (8) |
| ABDICATE | Sailor to finish holding whip and quit (8) |
| SAID | Unhappy after the speaker's been introduced and spoke (4) |
| PITSTOPS | Gives up crown and quits with those looking to recharge batteries perhaps off the racetracks (3,5) |
| TUMBLEDOWN | Decrepit and unhappy after the fall (10) |
| WATERSHIPDOWN | Unhappy after the servers lose one groovy novel (9,4) |
| STEELBLUE | A shade unhappy after the 11th anniversary (5,4) |
| CRACKDOWN | Unhappy after the cocaine repression (9) |
| ANNE | With the favourites Lady Sarah Churchill and Lady Abigail Masham, Queen who lived and died at Kensington Palace and was the last Stuart monarch (4) |
| STEP | Favourites return at the interval (4) |
| LIEDOWN | Rest unhappy after cock-and-bull story (3,4) |
| STEPBYSTEP | Is this how one would walk through how to upset The Cats besides turning over the favourites? (4,2,4) |
| PETS | The shortest of distances upsets the favourites (4) |
| PEDANTS | The boy is among the favourites of the stuff teachers (7) |
| FALLONONESSWORD | Own up about everyone working and working on command, be responsible and quit (4,2,4,5) |
| STRIKEDOWN | Fell, unhappy after industrial action (6,4) |
| SCALEDOWN | Unhappy after climb cut back (5,4) |
| DRESSDOWN | Unhappy after shift, getting rebuke (5,4) |
