| TENFOLD | X times it felt Don to be wrong (7) |
| CONTEND | Strive for Don to be given little money (7) |
| LIBERTYBODICE | Undergarment one dons to be credibly designed (7,6) |
| HUNDRED | X times X in ancient Rome (also, C) (7) |
| ABSCOND | A graduate ordered don to beat it (7) |
| QUIXOTE | Don to refer to nine that had been included (7) |
| TRYITON | Don to see what can be got away with (3,2,2) |
| UNDERGO | Urge don to suffer and suffer (7) |
| SPOONER | Tongue-tied Oxford don to make love with hesitation (7) |
| ADORNED | Don to have read about being decorated (7) |
| PARDONS | Don's to take the rap, so she forgives him (7) |
| EGGEDON | Urged and begged Don to relinquish leadership (5,2) |
| LEFTIST | IT FELTS |
| GUILTYPLEASURE | I did it all right - but it felt wrong enjoying it (6,8) |
| BEST | "It was the ___ of times, it was the worst of times" |
| EMMA | ___ Pickering, 2 x National Champ, 3 x times FishO Ladies champ (4) |
| AGES | If it felt like this, it was a long time |
| MASTODON | It takes Sam and Don to prove it no longer exists (8) |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
