| ALLELSE | What fails, triggering the last resort |
| THURSDAY | The Black one, in 1929, was the occasion when the Stock Exchange began to fall catastrophically, triggering the Great Depression |
| SUNLIGHT | Providing humans with vitamin D and triggering the release of serotonin and melatonin in the brain, a natural form of electromagnetic radiation (8) |
| CENTRALBANKER | In the last resort, a person of interest to someone with access to The Capital from the city overseas? (7,6) |
| SKEGNESS | Let's chuck the bag on the bus: it's always the last resort |
| ALMOST | "Virtually the last resort," the doctor interposed (6) |
| COMB | The brush may be the last resort after you scour and search for it. (4) |
| PIGGY | Might it be the last resort in lean times to bring home the bacon? (5,4) |
| BANK | Might it be the last resort in lean times to bring home the bacon? (5,4) |
| STRAW | Some of the best raw materials can be the last resort (5) |
| INAPINCH | As the last resort |
| ALLER | Pis ___ (the last resort) |
| STEALTH | Careful procedure the last resort? (7) |
| PISALLER | The last resort (2 wds) |
| STEALTHY | In the last resort, your leader is furtive |
| TALONS | They grip and hold on in the last resort |
| STEALTHBOMBERS | In the last resort, our enemies once put doctor inside military aircraft (7,7) |
| ROSS | Jonathan, TV presenter whose career began on The Last Resort in 1987 (4) |
| JONATHANROSS | Presenter who began his TV career hosting The Last Resort on Channel 4 in 1987 (8,4) |
| AMORY | He wrote "The Last Resorts" |
