| REDUCE | Was about to cut Mussolini down (6) |
| TINCTURE | Was about to cut in on time to get a slight tate (8) |
| ARREST | About to cut one half of starched tight collar (6) |
| DREADS | About to cut the old man's hair (6) |
| DONUTS | Grant's about to cut fruit (6) |
| DECIDE | Determine, when the editor is about to cut back (6) |
| JALOPY | Bird is about to cut an old banger (6) |
| RELENT | Was about to go fast, so had to back down (6) |
| ADMOVI | I put, placed (as Hypermestra, about to cut her lover's throat, ____ iugulo tela paterna tuo, Ovid Her. 14.48) |
| REDEEM | Was about to judge, in the past, how to buy things back (6) |
| CARING | Is tending to be looking after one, so was about to call in (6) |
| RESIGN | Was about to join a new club using signature, or could decide to retire (6) |
| SEESAW | Twig was about to go up and down |
| WARBLE | Bawler was about to sing (6) |
| RETURN | Was about to have a go on the way back (6) |
| REMOTE | Was about to see a spot a long way off (6) |
| HORACE | Being a poet, he was about to upset Cora (6) |
| CENTRE | Small change in the US was about to follow, at the core (6) |
| HIDDEN | Did wrong, when bird was about, to have kept it secret (6) |
| RINGED | Was about to call newspaper's boss |
