| TURKEYTROT | Wrong to do a backflip after failure in dance (6,4) |
| ABOUTFACE | In a boxing match, stand up to do a backflip (5-4) |
| RETRIAL | Runs one later scrambled in test, after failure in first |
| STEP | Stage where those such as hamsters do a backflip? (4) |
| LEMONGRASS | What shoppers do after failure to find cooking ingredient |
| CUTCORNERS | Economise in remote areas after failure (3,7) |
| SOMERSAULT | Quite a few direct slur at backflip (10) |
| TREASURIES | Rues a failure in efforts to make lots of money (10) |
| JULIADONALDSON | Granny clasping back in fall, silly sod, after trouble doing a backflip in sport, she writes (5,9) |
| AGNOSTIC | One doubts it's essential to dance with a backflip? |
| SUPERCARGO | Senior figure in boat group's upset about failure in race |
| AFFLICTION | Curse a female having heart failure in story (10) |
| SMETANA | A macadamia initially squeezed between buttocks, when doing a backflip, he scored! (7) |
| ENEMY | Rival in gym energetically doing a backflip (5) |
| SURYA | Bonaly who's the only Olympic skater to land a backflip on one blade |
| OBJECTOR | Conscientious ---, a person who refuses to serve in the armed forces because they think it is morally wrong to do so (8) |
| DEEPSPACE | Rider went, doing a backflip, one that's out of this world (4,5) |
| PINS | Legs cut doing a backflip (4) |
| MAGIC | Amazing soldier enters river doing a backflip (5) |
| PILFERER | Petty thief does a backflip and steals cat from caterer (8) |
