| Clues | Answers |
| (Self-)important personage | WORTHY |
| Coiled | SPIRAL |
| Emergency backup | STANDBY |
| Excavate | DIGUP |
| Fill | OCCUPY |
| Fizz (informal) | CHAMPERS |
| Flipping performer? | ACROBAT |
| Greedy guts | GLUTTON |
| Heat discolouration | SCORCH |
| Kind of duck | DRAKE |
| Malicious behaviour | SHENANIGANS |
| Marque of sports and luxury cars manufacturer in the UK since 1948 | JAGUAR |
| Mass murder | CARNAGE |
| New Zealand All Blacks’ war dance | HAKA |
| Not a soul | NOBODY |
| Old small silver Spanish coin | REAL |
| Parentless children | ORPHANS |
| Public promenade | PARADE |
| Quiver | PALPITATE |
| Rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | GLISSANDO |
| Scamp | RASCAL |
| Sound equipment fitted over the ears | HEADSET |
| Swallowed | INGESTED |
| Take illegally | POACH |
| Temporary knot | HITCH |
