| SHIVERED | Reacted to fear |
| LOVE | "To fear ___ is to fear life" (Russell) |
| ALE | "Naught to fear, and naught to think, / For hobbits now have ___ to drink" (hobbit drinking song lyric) |
| ITSELF | "... nothing to fear but fear __" |
| FDR | President who said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself": Abbr. |
| ROOSEVELT | 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,' declared this president also known as FDR |
| SONGSOFPRAISE | Relative to fear gossip spreading to service programme (5,2,6) |
| DREAD | To fear greatly, is to do what (5) |
| INFECTS | Transmits disease to mosquitos, say, beginning to fear for Society |
| THELONGARM | Isn't it a force to fear, at a stretch, finding anyone wanted to do a stretch? (3,4,3,2,3,3) |
| OFTHELAW | Isn't it a force to fear, at a stretch, finding anyone wanted to do a stretch? (3,4,3,2,3,3) |
| IDLETHREAT | It's nothing to fear |
| RAN | Succumbed to fear, maybe |
| ADRENALIN | Hormone secreted in response to fear (9) |
| FEAR | Nothing to fear but this? |
| DAUNTLESS | Invulnerable to fear (9) |
| SPIDER | Classic sports car, one to fear? (6) |
| HAVANA | Sound to fear in the savanna |
| CRAINDRE | To fear (8) |
| TIMID | Boy I had inclined to fear (5) |
