| ROSARY | Beads twisted or perhaps about right (6) |
| STARCH | Over-formality of chat's perhaps about right (6) |
| PARSEC | Unit of distance in space perhaps - about right (6) |
| SQUIRM | Struggle in a twisted or contorted motion (6) |
| BRETON | Twisted or bent language (6) |
| MORALE | Twisted or lame in spirit (6) |
| GNARLY | Twisted, or cool |
| SNAKED | Twisted or meandered |
| BUSTLE | Word for hurried activity; excited noisy hubbub; a stir or tumult; or, perhaps alluding to the rustling noise or motion of such a fuss, a pad or frame to puff out the back of a skirt (6) |
| PEAPOD | A long leguminous case, hull or shell holding a row of marrowfat seeds or perhaps two proverbially similar human "beans", as Roald "Dahl" would say (6) |
| ESCROC | Word, possibly from the Italian for "fire-maker, stoker", for a French conman, rogue or swindler, or perhaps an unscrupulous fraudulent broker (6) |
| EDITOR | One runs daily or perhaps weekly (6) |
| CLARET | Bottle or, perhaps, its contents (6) |
| BIGWIG | Powerful person or, perhaps, a substantial hairpiece (6) |
| EITHER | One of two or, perhaps, three I brought in (6) |
| ROUSED | Excited by, or perhaps inured to (6) |
| SPROUT | Puts out, or perhaps inside, to grow (6) |
| TENORS | They sing or perhaps snore, after time (6) |
| ACTORS | Cast, or perhaps those in it (6) |
| SPIRIT | Bottle - or, perhaps, its content (6) |
