| TAKING | ___ off; leaving |
| SCARED | Ran off, leaving person frightened (6) |
| ENTRY | Guard heading off - leaving this exposed? |
| DEPARTURE | Reader, put off, leaving (9) |
| DECANTED | Poured off leaving sediment |
| DECANTS | Pours off leaving sediment |
| ISOLATED | Tom sailed off, leaving maiden marooned (8) |
| DECANT | Pour off leaving sediment |
| COS | Pet set off, leaving a vegetable (3) |
| ALTER | Mitty's wife running off, leaving change (5) |
| YELLOWSEA | Slowly ease off, leaving behind southern part of ocean (6,3) |
| TEE | Where to drive off (leaving the hardbake) (3) |
| EGGTIMERS | Gets grime off, leaving sandy deposits in them (3,6) |
| THECLYDE | Wrong heading off, leaving Glen Docherty going all over the place, is route going 5Dn 17Dn (3,5) |
| EGRET | Be sorrowful heading off leaving the bird (5) |
| ROSANNA | She ran off leaving a son in trouble (7) |
| ENROBE | Ben rode off leaving daughter in dress (6) |
| ADDLE | Go off leaving the pupil in dead trouble (5) |
| PRELUNCH | Countdown to blast-off leaving area, not yet having got to one? (3-5) |
| FIFTY | Fighter's day off? Yes ___ off work! (5,6,2,4) |
