| HEADING | Direction from husband say, stifling a row |
| NANNYSTATE | Refusal to accept knights, say, stifling authority |
| GEISHA | On returning, a husband, say, is caught entertaining woman (6) |
| APATHY | Sluggishness of a desi husband, say? (6) |
| GEHENNA | Boleyn and husband, say, set up in hellish situation (7) |
| MOUTH | Married available husband, say (5) |
| NEWSMAN | Press person such as house husband, say, to protect son |
| ENTRAP | Catch husband, say, scratching head and reversing (6) |
| SPOUSE | Husband, say, betting by river (6) |
| HANDYMAN | Useful husband, say |
| ESPOUSES | Embraces husband, say, in middle of test (8) |
| INLAW | Sister-___ (sibling of one's husband, say) (hyph.) |
| SCARAMOUCH | Cowardly buffoon to buzz off stifling a cry of pain (10) |
| SNORTING | Stifling a laugh |
| MAJESTY | Showing dignity, this person's stifling a joke (7) |
| BIZZAZZ | Dealing informally with sound of snoring stifling a flamboyant vigour |
| HABANERA | Dance with goddess, stifling a curse, once |
| CACHINNATE | Hide outside pub stifling a tense laugh |
| RAVENOUSNESS | Terribly nervous head stifling a strong desire to scoff |
| PZAZZ | Quiet snoring sound stifling a flamboyant quality |
