| HORRIFIES | Appals a lot of cavalry - I fire wildly, breaking through |
| FIERCE | Fire wildly at the establishment, showing aggression (6) |
| RIFLE | Fire wildly holding large weapon (5) |
| INFURIATE | I fire aunt, possibly, showing anger (9) |
| TIDEWATER | Breaking through layer, early moisture acts oddly - it rises and falls (9) |
| WATERFALL | Sudden drop in river after breaking through barrier (9) |
| NOVITIATE | Probation: message about it breaking through (9) |
| APPRAISAL | Airs appal in estimation of value (9) |
| BREACHING | Getting as far as bridgehead before breaking through |
| FRIGHTENS | Appals |
| VIDESUPRA | Awful prudes breaking through (see above) |
| CHARGE | Heraldic device such as a chevron, cross, pale or saltire represented on a shield; a bugle call; accumulation of electricity; or, a headlong rush of cavalry troops (6) |
| EPIBLAST | Outer layer of letter I fire shells at (8) |
| ASCEND | Mount of a leader of cavalry wearing mail (6) |
| RAYS | Beams of light, perhaps breaking through darkness or clouds, thus symbolic of hope; or, fishes that glide through the water with fan-like fins (4) |
| VIAGRA | It stimulates members of a government, with Republican breaking through |
| VISTA | Prospect of a paragon breaking through (5) |
| INACTION | I fire back, tearing into idleness (8) |
| FACERUIN | I fire up the furnace, only to look at disaster (4,4) |
| FIGURINE | I fire gun clumsily scoring doll (8) |
