| SHEEPISH | Chastened villain in Dickens is surrounded by silence |
| PSYCHES | Analyses villain in Dickens, from what we hear |
| SAILCLOTH | Royals use this material to trouble fool surrounded by silence |
| GREAT | High hopes. What the Dickens is that all about? (5,12) |
| EXPECTATIONS | High hopes. What the Dickens is that all about? (5,12) |
| EUPHEMISTIC | Dickens is so naff, too |
| TAILPIECE | Last part in story followed by silence on the radio (9) |
| BEATREST | Don't move with musical rhythm followed by silence (2,2,4) |
| STEIL | Shaft of old mine finally shrouded by silence almost |
| SHEATH | A case of passion suppressed by silence (6) |
| SHY | Modest Mussorgsky's finale preceded by silence (3) |
| THESECRET | Awfully chastened with regret in story (3,6,6) |
| GARDEN | Awfully chastened with regret in story (3,6,6) |
| MAKOSHARK | Deadly sea creature runs amok, followed by silence as boat goes under (4,5) |
| SIN | "To ___ by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men": Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| REPENTANT | Chastened about jailed worker (9) |
| REMORSEFUL | Chastened, rule from resort outside Home Counties |
| SERPENT | Snake repents, chastened (7) |
| PRACTICAL | Landscape architect, unusually chastened, withdraws to be pragmatic |
| HUMBLEPIE | Metaphorical food for the chastened |
