| LETHAL | All panicking about the escape: a killer |
| SQUEAK | A sound of a mouse or a pan of bubbling, frying colcannon; a rat or snitch; a pipe or whine; a single remark; a narrow escape; a jot; a bare chance; or, a feeble paper/local rag (6) |
| NUMBERTHESTARS | Lois Lowry's work of historical fiction about the escape of a Jewish family during World War II |
| ARGO | 2012 film starring U.S. actor Ben Affleck about the escape of U.S. diplomats from Iran (4) |
| THEODESSAFILE | Frederick Forsyth novel about the escape of SS members after WWII (3,6,4) |
| BREAK | A crack, fracture or split; a brief pause for elevenses, fourses or tiffin; a sudden rush to escape; a change in the weather; or, a caesura (5) |
| TIMPANI | What I'm panicking about is holding the kettledrums (7) |
| AEROSOL | Spray a loser panicking about nothing (7) |
| SMOOTHIES | Starts panicking about money and also about drinks (9) |
| BREAKAWAY | A secession/escape; a stampede; an attacking sprint to the goal in sport; or, a group of cyclists ahead of, or accelerating away from, a peloton (9) |
| LEAK | Homophonous with the name of a spring onion-like scallion, a word for a crack allowing the escape of liquid, gas or figurative secret information (4) |
| ISOBAR | Line produced by Boris, panicking about answer? (6) |
| SLIP | An escape; a fall from grace; a quick-release leash for a dog; or, an unexpected loss of footing caused by a loss of traction (4) |
| MANTHELIFEBOATS | Film AB, one that's panicking about start of emergency call following Mayday? (3,3,9) |
| GETAWAY | A criminal's rapid escape; a start or acceleration; or, a minibreak (7) |
| AVOIDANCE | Escape a speech about martial arts expert (9) |
| LETOUT | A chance to escape a difficult situation |
| TRAPDOOR | A way to escape a spider? (8) |
| ABSCONDS | Gets out of the way to escape a legal process (8) |
| GETOFF | Leave a bus, say, and escape a charge (3,3) |
