| IDONTBITE | "No need to fear me!" |
| IWONTBITE | "No need to fear me!" |
| METUANT | Caligula's motto oderint dum ____: let them hate me so long as they fear me |
| 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 | "... we have to fear is fear ___" (F.D.R.) |
| DREAD | To fear greatly, is to do what (5) |
| ERROR | No time to fear slip |
| INFECTS | Transmits disease to mosquitos, say, beginning to fear for Society |
| 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) |
| OFTHELAW | Isn't it a force to fear, at a stretch, finding anyone wanted to do a stretch? (3,4,3,2,3,3) |
| THELONGARM | 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 |
| ALSORANS | Winner has nothing to fear from these losers (4-4) |
| ADRENALIN | Hormone secreted in response to fear (9) |
| YELLOW | Tendency to fear Lib Dem surge (6,6) |
| FEAR | Nothing to fear but this? |