| RECRUDESCE | From sports ground, secured criminal is to break out again (10) |
| BRIDGEHEAD | An area of ground secured on the enemy's side of an obstacle (10) |
| ERUPT | Some prisoner, uptight, is to break out (5) |
| RESCUED | Secured criminal is liberated |
| RECOVER | Get back from sports ground having finished (7) |
| RECOIL | Draw back from sports ground with slimy liquid (6) |
| RECEDING | Withdrawing from sports ground, say, carrying racket (8) |
| ABIOGENIST | One believes in spontaneous generation - a being is to break free? |
| TREBLECLEF | Sign on staff from sport's inner circle ahead of brief split (6,4) |
| CONSPIRING | Plotting with criminal one on the inside to break out of gaol (10) |
| FLASHPOINT | Time when hostilities are likely to break out (10) |
| DEFRAUDING | Cheating caused daring feud to break out (10) |
| ESCAPEKEYS | What typists use to break out of jail? (6,4) |
| NETTLERASH | Allergic reaction threatens to break out around top of leg (6-4) |
| ESCAPEROOM | Place you need clues to break out of (2 wds.) |
| ESCAPEPLAN | Strategy to break out of jail |
| CHINOISERIE | At home, nothing is to break dear French ornaments from the East |
| OFFENDER | Criminal is to wind up trapped by proposal (8) |
| SITONTHEFENCE | Turning honest about it, criminal is to avoid being committed (3,2,3,5) |
| ACCUSED | The alleged criminal is, to a certain measure, hardened (7) |
