| TROUBLED | Anxious; in difficulty |
| EAST | "One Direction" extremely anxious in Egypt (4) |
| HAGRIDDEN | Desperately anxious, in terrible danger, hid |
| PRESENTTENSE | Grant getting anxious in current form |
| INSECURE | Anxious in short time on river (8) |
| FRANTIC | Extremely anxious in craft being wrecked (7) |
| INTENSE | Batting and anxious in the extreme (7) |
| INASTATE | Anxious in Washington perhaps (2,1,5) |
| HYPERBOLE | Exaggeration by rep, anxious in an awkward situation (9) |
| TREMBLED | The first period of sleep ran colourfully for what someone anxious in The Movement would have done (8) |
| DISTRESSEDSALES | Come-ons for the anxious in retail therapy? |
| AGONISED | Felt anxious in the past ? end is wrong (8) |
| HETUP | Anxious in Phuket about missing Cambodia (3,2) |
| WORRIER | One unduly anxious in lineup? That is right (7) |
| DREADS | Fears, is scared of; is anxious, in a way (6) |
| ABAGOFNERVES | Before gas van was improved was anxious in it (1,3,2,6) |
| UPTIGHT | Being anxious in the saddle gets drunk (7) |
| OUTOFJOINT | Why dopehead is anxious, in a state of disorder (3,2,5) |
| PLIGHT | Putting answer in crossword, after using pen in the beginning, results in difficulty (6) |
| KITCHENETTE | Teen, in thicket, in difficulty, in galley! (11) |