| SOLVE | Work out this ending, and love solution (5) |
| STABLES | Steady? This ending stalls (7) |
| ABSOLVE | Sailor loves solution that's clear (7) |
| GUESS | Work out this answer? (5) |
| VOILA | Thin material? Change the ending and there you are! (5) |
| READY | Leaf through book with happy ending, and good to go (5) |
| IDYLL | Lazily swapped ending and lost happy scene (5) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Irish dramatist who adapted Shakespeare's King Lear with a happy ending and was appointed England's poet laureate in 1692 (5) |
| AFTER | Fairytale ending, 'and they lived happily ever ...' |
| TOALL | A Visit from St. Nicholas ending, "... and ___ ___ a good night!" |
| LEGIBLE | To work out this clue it must be (7) |
| LATITUDE | Early navigators could work out this distance north or south of the equator long before they could c |
| COMPOUND | 9 & 20Ac. Sum to do in per cent to work out this figure (8,8) |
| INTEREST | Sum to do in per cent to work out this figure (8,8) |
| PUBLICFIGURES | State works out this refers to celebrities (6,7) |
| GRANDFINALE | Climactic show ending, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| THEHILL | Rupert Brooke poem ending And then you suddenly cried, and turned away (3,4) |
| HAPPILY | Fairytale ending, 'And they all lived ... ever after' |
| ROSESARERED | First line of romantic verse ending "And so are you" |
| CIRCUMVENT | Go round offering public entertainment with new ending - and opening |
