| TOADY | With duke sent down, now one grovels |
| DOWN | Unhappy private duke sent to the front |
| UGLYDUCKLING | One that's down now, with a high-flying future? |
| SUPERMINI | Now one's concerned with matter after overturning car (9) |
| OTERI | "Simma down now!" utterer on "SNL" |
| JUSTRELAX | "Calm down now!" |
| CEASEFIRE | Arms down now, and stop to get warmer |
| TITANIC | I can't see it - it's gone down now! (7) |
| EASY | "Simmer down now!" |
| ORDER | I want this courtroom calmed down now! |
| SCRAWLS | Bob grovels and doodles (7) |
| BUTTERSUP | Grovels to rams and billy-goats increase (7,2) |
| GLOSSOVER | Grovels so awkwardly in attempt to cover up |
| BOWSANDSCRAPES | Grovels, shows undue deference (4,3,7) |
| GOES | Regularly grovels, and departs (4) |
| SUCKSUP | Absorbs universal pressure and grovels (5,2) |
| FLIRT | Related to "talk sweet nothings", a word with early senses including "blow, dally, flick, flighty woman, giddy girl, jerk, jibe, joke, scoff, sneer", now "one who plays at courtship" (5) |
| NONUSER | One's off the drugs now one's run out (3-4) |
| EIGHTEEN | Now one has majority support - Hinge funny as Bracket |
| SOCIETY | '___ is now one polished horde' (Lord Byron Don Juan (1819-24) |
