| RESTCURES | You're better not working with them |
| ONTHEMEND | Is improving, when working with them, at last (2,3,4) |
| ONTHESPUR | Over fourteen months working with them to seize power, acting impulsively (2,3,4,2,3,6) |
| MOMENT | Over fourteen months working with them to seize power, acting impulsively (2,3,4,2,3,6) |
| OFFLIMITS | Not working with German in league is not to be considered |
| OFFTHEAIR | Not working with article on melody, not being broadcast (3,3,3) |
| DOWNTOOLS | Strike not working with pawns (4,5) |
| UPTHEDUFF | Put out man not working with child (2,3,4) |
| ANTIDOTES | A diet's not working with counteractive medicine |
| HANDSDOWN | Workers not working with complete ease |
| DETECTIVE | Sleuth not working, with time for female (9) |
| FRYINGPAN | In which you're better off than in the fire (6-3) |
| OFFENBACH | Not working with extremes of emotion, a Baroque composer and writer of operettas (9) |
| TELLNOONE | "This better not get out" |
| POLICEMAN | One who better not miss a beat |
| APPLECART | Tech company getting hump? Better not upset it! (5-4) |
| CROSSFIRE | Intense passion on X? Better not get caught up in it |
| SOREPOINT | The rope's having got tangled into knots is better not mentioned (4,5) |
| SMARTACUS | Slave who decided it was probably better NOT to fight the Roman army? |
| DONTASK | 'You're better off not knowing' |
