| COMPLEX | Cause of psychic conflict not easily understood |
| UNCLEAR | Ill-defined or not easily understood (7) |
| OBSCURE | Old boy's remedy, not easily understood |
| CODE | Many a poem is not easily understood (4) |
| INSCRUTABLE | Incur stable pieces when not easily understood |
| PLAYHARDTOGET | Tease in literary work, not easily understood (4,4,2,3) |
| CLOSEDBOOK | One who is not easily understood (6,4) |
| DEEP | Not easily understood |
| SPHINX | Misdemeanour outside pub by one not easily understood |
| GNOMIC | Novel coming is not easily understood (6) |
| CLEARASMUD | Not easily understood |
| SUBTLE | From "delicate", "finely woven" or "beneath a web", word meaning "not easily understood" in its early sense, later barely noticeable, crafty, faint, refined, slight, tactful or tenuous (6) |
| COWRIE | Company that is full of conflict - not a Shell? (6) |
| NEEDLE | Conflict not required to see off a group of Nazis |
| CODWAR | Former conflict, not quite cold, not quite warm |
| ID | Part of the unconscious, source of psychic energy |
| RAW | Revolutionary conflict not refined (3) |
| OPPOS | Friends in conflict - not half! (5) |
| ARMY | A conflict not initiated by my military unit (4) |
| WARRINGTON | Otago town is in conflict, not in recession (10) |
