| OSTRACISM | A state of being excluded or sidelined (9) |
| DEBARRED | Excluded or prohibited the entry |
| OUT | Unconscious of being excluded |
| PRESS | Journalists claim of being excluded |
| NAKEDNESS | A state of being unclothed |
| PROCESS | A state of being carried on; course of time; a natural series of changes, as in ageing or digestion; or, a sequence of operations which produce a result (7) |
| INPROFILE | Popular professional record holder being sidelined? (2,7) |
| NOONEELSE | Twelve fish close to shore, others being excluded (2,3,4) |
| LOCKEDOUT | Opened in opposition to being excluded from work (6,3) |
| ABANDONED | Sidelined |
| FORBIDDEN | Sidelined |
| BUSINESS | A group of ferrets; or, from the Old English for "anxiety", a word whose early sense was used to mean a state of being fully occupied, later commerce, industry or trade (8) |
| NUMB | From "take", a state of being anaesthetised, deadened, insensible, paralysed or torpid as a result of feeling or sensation "taken" away (4) |
| MALEFICENCE | A state of being evil or mischievous (11) |
| VIEWS | Words that represent an action or a state of being. (5) |
| VERBS | Words that represent an action or a state of being (5) |
| OUTOFTHINAIR | From a state of being invisible or non-existent (3,2,4,3) |
| RENEWAL | A state of being renewed (7) |
| UNITY | A state of being one (5) |
| UNREADINESS | Struggling end-users in a state of being unprepared (11) |
