| TOORIGHT | Jumper pulled back in close without doubt (3,5) |
| LANYARD | Retrieve from water fish pulled back in with line (7) |
| SHOTPUT | Instruction to go ahead held back in close field event (4,3) |
| ORATOR | Speaker, sailor wearing jumper, pulled up (6) |
| RIPCORD | One jumper pulled on during a windswept fall? (7) |
| PONYTAIL | Pulled back hairstyle in box E (8) |
| HOOKUP | Get close without being close |
| TOBOGGAN | Vehicle horse pulled back to marsh, initially (8) |
| DRAWNOFF | Very loud direction for Christian soldiers to come up, then pulled back |
| GARLANDS | Bit of cloth pulled back secures flower arrangements |
| IMITATED | Taken off - current pulled back film-maker into sea |
| DOWNWARD | Falling stock market index pulled back (8) |
| TRAPDOOR | Cross section pulled back to reveal hidden entrance (4,4) |
| NOBLESSE | Peers into vessel, bonnet having been pulled back |
| EMBRACED | The writer pulled back, tensed up, given a cuddle (8) |
| SMARTIES | Clever people's sheep pulled back tethers (8) |
| CAMELLIA | Beast of burden, with trouble, pulled back a flowering shrub (8) |
| REINEDIN | Pulled back from throwing the inner die (6,2) |
| BUTTERUP | Bar pulled back round say, flatter (6,2) |
| AIRLESS | Close without a song (7) |