| APPETITES | Desires a quiet pet, it's tense every now and then (9) |
| LAPDOG | Left before a quiet pet influenced person (6) |
| UNDRESS | A French physician tenses, every so often, when they remove scrubs |
| LONGSINCE | Desire's a mortal error to church for many years |
| WITCHES | With desires, a threesome led by Hecate? (7) |
| HUSHPUPPY | Quiet pet, one of a pair? (4,5) |
| STREETCAR | Desire a name for this US passenger vehicle? |
| GOLDFISH | Au fait to occasionally ignore quiet pet, perhaps (8) |
| COCKATOO | Time for quiet: pet dog becomes talking animal (8) |
| DOG | A pet; its life prov. wretched |
| MUSCAT | To sum up, pet, it's a rich wine |
| ACROBAT | Stuntman wrestling a cobra - it's tense! (7) |
| ONEDGE | A dagger's drawn, oddly: it's tense (2,4) |
| STRIPE | Son's right, its tense in bar (6) |
| CLIFFHANGER | It's tense and exciting having one suspended on rockface (11) |
| REINDEER | Control pet, it's said, wild animal |
| VULGAR | Turn over newspaper, pet - it's offensive (6) |
| ASTRAY | For an ownerless pet, it's wrong |
| AORIST | It's tense for the Greeks as Aristotle let go (6) |
| PERFECT | It's tense, but it couldn't be better (7) |
