| FIGURINE | Beset by random gunfire, I'm like a statue (8) |
| FIGURE | Reckon random gunfire lacks point or direction |
| STRATEGY | Time for example consumed by random plan (8) |
| CASTLOTS | Decide by random selection (4,4) |
| DYSLEXIA | Reading complaint from team detained by random delays |
| ANDSTILL | Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978 (3,5,1,4) |
| DRAWLOTS | Decide by random selection |
| NELLY | "I'm Like a Bird" by Victoria-born singer Ms. Furtado |
| SIGN | Abandon with a stroke of the pen, for example: I'm like a rodent inside (4,4) |
| JLO | She said, "I'm like a little roach. You think I'm gone for good ... But then you go to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, and boom! I got an album." |
| PUMICE | I'm like a stalactite in dark red volcanic rock (6) |
| NELLYFURTADO | "I'm like a bird" singer/songwriter from Victoria: 2 wds. |
| FERTADO | 'I'm Like A Bird' singer (5,7) |
| GENET | I'm like a cat, say, knocking back fish (5) |
| TAPIR | I'm like a pig - I run and I run |
| LOT | The making of a decision by random selection of a straw or a slip of paper etc; or, by extension, an assigned or apportioned share; or, one's destiny, fate or fortune (3) |
| STATIONARY | Transformed into art, say, like a statue (10) |
| MARMOREAL | Security cover for American during dinner is like a statue? |
| STOCKSTILL | Puts float in position like a statue |
| ERECT | Put up, like a statue |
