| PONDERED | Contemplated the wild deer at the waterside (8) |
| MUSED | Contemplated the number employed (5) |
| WANDERED | At dawn, perhaps, the wild deer strayed (8) |
| DESCRIBE | Outline key bone shown in deer at odd points (8) |
| HINDHEAD | Part of a deer at small Surrey town (8) |
| NUMBERED | Like the doomed days of one with no feeling for the wild deer? (8) |
| BOTHERED | Disturbed both the wild deer (8) |
| RELIEVED | Helped to live freely amid the wild deer (8) |
| MUTTERED | Talked quietly to a dog and the wild deer (8) |
| RETURNED | Went back for a spell amid the wild deer (8) |
| RANDWICK | When visiting this village near Stroud, have a drink in the waterside cafe first, then go for a wander around (8) |
| THRUSHES | Birds in nearly all the waterside plants |
| PORTLAND | Setter contemplated resignation, discontented creative (8,6) |
| CONTEMPT | Contemplated unleaded with disdain (8) |
| DEFERENCE | The deer at the fence is showing submission (9) |
| HIND | The female deer at the back? |
| STAGNATES | Deer at the bottom becomes motionless |
| WHATWAS | The poetess is intrigued by a piper's activity at the waterside (4,3,2,5,5,3,3,4,2,4,2,3,5) |
| MELON | To me, half London can be at the waterside getting fruit! |
| SEAPORT | Where sailors can get a drink at the waterside |
