| THIRTEENTH | Unlucky date maybe to be hit with the rent, unfortunately |
| OPENDAY | Date maybe to invite parents over? Bring in sandwiches left-over! (4,3) |
| MISSES | Yet they may be hits with the boys (6) |
| ASTERN | When rent, unfortunately, gets behind (6) |
| LEVIED | The French competed to be hit with tax (6) |
| STAPLER | Invention originally designed to be hit with a mallet |
| OAK | According to tradition, what tree was associated with the god of thunder because it was thought to be the tree most likely to be hit by lightning? (3) |
| REDOLENT | Having to cope with the rent on the dole really smells! (8) |
| SLOANE | Privileged young woman borrowed money maybe to be in the Home Counties |
| DEER | The first boy maybe to be heard in song (4) |
| TEAPOT | What’s needed maybe to be mother? To pater, mostly silly |
| BLAST | The last to be hit by the explosion? (5) |
| GONG | It may be hit with a hammer |
| NAILSET | Tool that may be hit with a hammer |
| SMASH | Bankruptcy may be hit with great success (5) |
| OBJECTLESSON | Be hit with Noel's cost around beginning of January — giving this? |
| TEARFULLY | Don't hold back with the rent, maybe, sobbing |
| VINTNER | 5 Romans come in with the rent from the wine-seller (7) |
| BORDERCOLLIE | Sheepdog, maybe, to be beside miner endlessly |
| UNDERWRAPS | Hidden, doesn't knock loud enough, maybe, to be heard |
