| DAWDLER | Wife carried in broken ladder - she's taking her time (7) |
| ASICK | "She's taking ___ day soon..." (Fountains of Wayne lyric) |
| SHEBEENS | She's taking tipsy Eben inside illegal Irish drinking dens (8) |
| REBA | She's taking Blake's seat on "The Voice" |
| MIMICRY | Taking her off made girl in opera weep |
| RADDLED | Run down a broken ladder with a key |
| REFRESH | Stimulate umpire, taking her up over last of calls |
| SITTING | Spell posing for one's portrait to be painted by an artist; a legislative session; or, a hen's clutch of eggs or her time brooding on such (7) |
| SEERESS | She's ahead of her time |
| CHRISTIE | Devonshire-born double cream-drinking, globetrotting, roller-skating and surfing "Queen of Crime", who acquired her knowledge of poisons during her time spent working in a hospital dispensary (8) |
| SCAMS | Confidence tricks, like Hollyoaks" Mercedes McQueen has pulled in her time! (5) |
| ALLTHERAGE | Everything about her, time and time again, is really fashionable (3,3,4) |
| BIDE | Wife-to-be, ignoring second letter, will do this with her time instead |
| ORANGE | And 12/23/9 Piper Kerman's 2010 memoir of her time in prison |
| SITTER | Is she taking a test in baby care? (6) |
| BALDERDASH | To suggest the broken ladder went to the bash is nonsense (10) |
| STRADDLE | Sit astride broken ladder by the road first (8) |
| STRADDLED | Good man with broken ladder at front door stood with legs apart (9) |
| RUIN | Destruction, one having broken ladder (4) |
| CHERWELL | Caught taking her water supply from river (8) |
