| DANGEROUSLY | In a perilous manner |
| EXPOSEDTODANGER | In a perilous situation |
| PRECIPITANCE | Being rash, getting sunburn in a perilous situation |
| ONTHINICE | Nicotine hit husband inhaled in a perilous predicament |
| INTHELIONSDEN | (Put) in a perilous position (2,3,5,3) |
| UNSAFELY | United fans disrupted city in a perilous way (8) |
| COWARDS | Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce |
| PRECIPICE | From "steep place, danger" and etymologically related to a term for rain, a word for a headlong fall originally, now a cliff, drop, rock face etc; or, a perilous state of affairs (9) |
| PLIGHT | A perilous situation, perhaps when pledging one's troth in marriage (6) |
| BEWAREOFDOG | Message about a perilous pooch |
| HAIRY | Like a perilous situation |
| RESCUE | Retrieve from a perilous situation |
| KNIFEEDGE | Narrow ridge, a perilous place on which to be |
| COLLISIONCOURSE | Colin sure is cool flying such a perilous path (9,6) |
| ICEROAD | Diamonds staff brought round a perilous track (3,4) |
| VOLCANO | Distressingly vocal on a perilous mountain like Stromboli (7) |
| ICIER | More perilous, as a sidewalk in winter |
| ICIEST | Most perilous, like a sidewalk in winter |
| ERISKAY | Close to secure area in perilous dry area, in the main (7) |
| FALLINGHOUSE | Perilous setting of a classic Buster Keaton sequence |