| FEARING | Being afraid of (7) |
| SPEEDREADING | With page swallowed, understand being afraid of word processor's shortcut? |
| FUNKING | Being afraid to have a lark with a ruler (7) |
| METUENS | Timens, formidans: being afraid, as Simo, Ter. Andria 585 |
| PHOBIC | Enemy reported writer for being afraid |
| DREADING | Being afraid I'd retreat in fresh danger (8) |
| FEATHERING | Being afraid about the cover bird has been given (10) |
| NICHOLS | Mike, director of the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (7) |
| COWARDS | They're too afraid of the farm animals at the sides of a road (7) |
| RUNNING | Afraid of operating mark bearing date (7,6) |
| DREADED | Wild deer dad was afraid of (7) |
| FEATHER | Be afraid of screening "The Birds" (7) |
| FEARFUL | Afraid of getting a loud, lengthy rebuke (7) |
| URUKHAI | In J R R Tolkien's works, a new breed of orc, no longer afraid of daylight, that emerged in the Third Age |
| JITTERG | Afraid of one's own shadow |
| JITTERY | Afraid of one's own shadow |
| ONEMPTY | Afraid of running out, gas gauge-wise |
| LADYBUG | Large bad guy afraid of American flying insect |
| BARNOWL | A bird like Jill Tomlinson's 'Plop', who was afraid of the dark (4,3) |
| WORKSHY | 'Shirk? Why?', asks Spooner, 'Afraid of exertion?' (4-3) |
