| FRAYSFRAYS | A couple of melees ... or put into new, simpler words without changing the meaning? |
| SCRUMS | Word named after formations of rugby players for disorderly mobs, melees or crowds of reporters (6) |
| LEECH | Bloodsucker found at the centre of melee challenge (5) |
| ELUSIVE | American quartet in middle of melee are difficult to find (7) |
| RUMPUS | Melee or turmoil |
| CASTASIDE | Discard or put into a film, say, a team of players (4,5) |
| BEAUIDEAL | Thought put into new design of a blue model of excellence (4,5) |
| ROAM | The B-52's song with the words "without wings, without wheels" |
| ANAPHORA | Use of a word such as a pronoun to refer back to a preceding word without repeating it (8) |
| WASTE | Garden ___ can go on the compost heap, taken to the local tip, or put into the council garden ___ bin! (5) |
| REPACKAGE | Material on a container outside end of dock to be put into new carton? (9) |
| SMIDGEN | A small amount of money originally put into new design (7) |
| LIPREAD | Interpret a speaker's words without hearing the voice (3-4) |
| PSYCH | Examine the mind, briefly, in a word without a vowel (5) |
| ENCAGE | Get out the cane, for example, or put into confinement (6) |
| HAIR | Thread-like growth on your head that you might have cut or tied back or put into braids (4) |
| DIRECTLY | Work on a film from first light to end of the day getting to where you want to get without changing one's lines? (8) |
| AGENCY | Get old head of communications put into New York bureau (6) |
| ARTIST | Creative person's time put into new design of sitar (6) |
| THEME | The stem of a word without its inflexions (5) |
