| FARFROM | 21 3's anything but increasing "bird" when the boss is about (3,4,3,7,5) |
| STUDIED | Deliberately contrived to stop working when boss is about |
| WOODLAND | Initially dyed in the ___ and whence 21 3's people came (8) |
| TESSOF | 21 3's "Sh! See lovebirds flutter feebly" (4,2,3,12) |
| HEADSTART | An advantage when the boss is over the fright (4,5) |
| HOLDSTHEFORT | Doesn't surrender what one does when the boss is away (5,3,4) |
| SOBS | When the boss is put out he cries bitterly |
| NSFW | Don't read this when the boss is around!: Abbr. |
| LEEIACOCCA | "The speed of the boss is the speed of the team" source |
| STUDYING | Considering the boss is on the way out, day is lost (8) |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| GOTINTOHOTWATER | Sure enough, when the boss showed up, everyone ... |
| FIGUREHEAD | Reckon the boss is a boss in name only |
| GAFFER | The boss is right behind the boo-boo (6) |
| YELLOWHEAD | The boss is after a cowardly bird (10) |
| INCHARGE | Held by the police, the boss is (2,6) |
| HEADON | The sort of clash in which the boss is appearing (4-2) |
| ASAP | When the boss wants it |
| SNAPTO | React when the boss appears |
| EMULATE | Do like another bird when teal is disturbed (7) |
