| WAROF | and 8 Across: A wearing conflict |
| CHEF | With 8 across, a reality cooking competition |
| BOULDER | See 8 Across A climbing wall at Olympic Park, Ellesmere Port (7,3) |
| ANATHEMA | A wearing song -- a curse (8) |
| ABRASION | A wearing away (8) |
| SCANDAL | Cold a wearing summer footwear a disgrace! (7) |
| LHASAAPSOS | Dogs help us past bears, a wearing circuit (5,5) |
| EROSION | A wearing away |
| RAGTRADE | A wearing sort of business (3,5) |
| EROS | Love, once I've become attached, has a wearing effect |
| ATTRITION | Volatile riot in state expelling outsiders? It's a wearing down process (9) |
| UPS | ___ and downs, trials and tribulations as between 1 Across and 8 Across? (3) |
| GALLOWAY | And 8 Across Locomotive Services Ltd Class 47 (8,8) |
| QUESTIONMASTERS | The best posers with 9 across and 8 across at school (8,7) |
| CONCRETEJUNGLES | 9 across and 8 across with endless blights on the landscape (8,7) |
| SHORTHANDTYPIST | Secretary to most of those in 26 across, 24 across and 8 across (9,6) |
| OFFICE | And 4 Across and 8 Across Network Rail's regulator (6,2,4,3,4) |
| BURNONESFINGERS | 23 down and 10 across and 8 across at Society suffer financial loss (4,3'1,7) |
| PARRY | And 8 Across and 17 Across Lightweight railcar at Stourbridge (5,6,5) |
| STAFF | and 8 Across: Ceremonial symbol for typists and clerks |