| STANDINGCORRECTED | Not taking the rebuke sitting down? |
| UPLIFTS | Raises one's spirits by not by not taking the down elevators (7) |
| NIM | Game won by taking (or not taking) the last matchstick |
| REACTIVE | Not taking the lead |
| PLAYINGSECOND | Not taking the lead in bowing (7,6,6) |
| FIDDLE | Not taking the lead in bowing (7,6,6) |
| IMPROV | Rally, in short, not taking the rehearsed route |
| LONGEST | Arranged legs not taking the most time (7) |
| PARASOL | Cover for those not taking the sun (7) |
| FINANCIALTIMES | Crime not taking the newspaper (9,5) |
| WADDLE | ... bunk, not taking the first step of an eider? (6) |
| PASSINGTHEBUCK | Not taking the blame for transferring money (7,3,4) |
| NIGHT | Dark horse not taking the lead (5) |
| CITES | Alludes to Washington and Lincoln, for instance, not taking the fourth? (5) |
| NEST | A bed of a being, bink of a bee, burrow of a badger or literal "sitting-down place" of a bird, built in the process of nidification; or, the brood occupying such a breeding ground (4) |
| UNDERSTANDING | Sitting down too much? That's the perception |
| SEDATE | Staid, sitting down when the last one rises |
| ATTAINABLE | Sitting down to eat around one - not actually initially realistic |
| WATCHINGFOOTBALLGAMES | ...before sitting down for the feast |
| LARSON | Cartoonist who said "I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the |
