| FATCHANCE | Yet it means there's only a slim hope! (3, 6) |
| SCINTILLA | Mistake by agricultural worker, it's said? There's only a trace (9) |
| DESPAIRED | Wanted to embrace secretary, but didn't have a hope! (9) |
| LOSEHEART | Fall in love then give up hope! |
| OESOPHAGI | What act as channels for processing sago, I hope! |
| DESPERATE | That rate of speed is really quite beyond hope! (9) |
| PIPEDREAM | Dickensian character remade novel? Some hope! |
| ALLISLOST | "There's no hope!" |
| TIMEBOMBS | They get defused in some action films (one hopes!) |
| PRESTO | It means there's to be no loitering in the passage (6) |
| PLUS | It means there's something extra, which is an advantage (4) |
| SOME | Thus, at half time, it means there's more to come |
| TNT | It means there are boom days ahead |
| SLENDERHOPE | Yet it means a fat chance (7,4) |
| AFAT | Slim hope, you'd have to say, of Hardy ever being as lean as Laurel! (1,3,6) |
| CHANCE | Slim hope, you'd have to say, of Hardy ever being as lean as Laurel! (1,3,6) |
| BREAKSUP | Goes to pieces when there's only a short rest to take a meal (6,2) |
| BUTTON | Fastener of which there's only a hundred (6) |
| REALM | It's true! There's only a thousand in this kingdom |
| RATTLE | Bother! That means there's a baby about (6) |
