| MAIDLESS | Without female help, state didn't produce so much |
| MAID | Male help? Female help! (4) |
| DEGENERATE | The editor returns to produce and then to deteriorate as a result |
| REMAINED | Embarrassed about state, didn't move |
| UNEARNEDINCOME | Labour didn't produce such funding (8,6) |
| ATISSUEOFLIES | Presumably, the paper of record didn't produce this cock-and-bull story (1,6,2,4) |
| DISH | Good-looker was female's help in kitchen (10) |
| DISHWASHER | Good-looker was female's help in kitchen |
| WASHER | see 15ac, Good-looker was female's help in kitchen |
| TANGLY | Fly back, and take flight without female, in confused state |
| SCARFACE | So-called gangster rarely spotted without female on arm, for a start (8) |
| UNCTION | Do without female religious glibness (7) |
| SEASHELL | Marine mammal, without female, left home for snail |
| RURITANIA | Control one area without female, fictional place (9) |
| DEFICIENT | Inadequate duke gets organised without female (9) |
| ACTIVE | Busy producing last part of play without female (6) |
| SELFSUPPORTING | Staying up alone, single, sadly without female to drink wine |
| STAG | Speculator without female escort |
| RIGID | Stiff with or without female on top (5) |
| TRIPLET | Tour left without female, one of three recent arrivals (7) |
