| TARTS | We cannot stay fully associated when axe gets lifted |
| RECANTS | Cannot stay in reserve when withdraws statement |
| CROSSBILL | Bad-tempered old battle-axe gets the bird |
| HATCHETJOB | Profession, after getting axe, gets severe criticism |
| THEHAGUE | Seat of government at that time not fully associated with former Tory leader (3,5) |
| PRESS | William N Oatis was the Prague bureau chief for the news agency, Associated ..., when he was arreste |
| ASLEEP | Possibly under anaesthetic when skin gets lifted (6) |
| PRAISED | Lauded when pressure gets lifted |
| WANNABE | Hopeful prohibition gets lifted during decline |
| PROBLEMS | "We cannot solve our ___ with the same thinking we used when we created them": Albert Einstein (8) |
| IAGO | "We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly 'd" speaker |
| EVADE | "We must learn to suffer what we cannot ___": Michel de Montaigne (5) |
| ARE | "We cannot all succeed when half of us ___ held back" (Malala Yousafzai) |
| REPEL | "We retard what we cannot ..." Johnson, Preface to Dictionary of the English Language (5) |
| MALALAYOUSAFZAI | Education activist and Nobel laureate who said, "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back" |
| LARGER | "In a ___ sense, we cannot dedicate..." |
| GROUND | What "we cannot hallow": Lincoln |
| SEE | "All the Light We Cannot ___" by Anthony Doerr |
| DOERR | Anthony __, Pulitzer winner for "All the Light We Cannot See" |
| DOODAHS | Ghost shortly returning after party and things we cannot name (7) |
