| UNBOSOM | Disclose in confidence (7) |
| SOFTLAUNCH | Phrase meaning "disclose in a low-key way" formed by the opposite of "hard" + a verb associated with rockets: 2 wds. |
| BEDPOST | Referred to in an idiomatic phrase meaning "between you and me" or "in confidence", a vertical corner support of a frame bracing a mattress (7) |
| ENTRUST | Commit in confidence in decent rustic setting |
| TRUSSES | Said in confidence it's tied up (7) |
| CELESTA | 'It's played in confidence' - Les Taylor (7) |
| PRIVATE | Rave about tip given to a swaddy in confidence (7) |
| SECRETE | Keep things hidden away, in confidence, at the end (7) |
| SECRETS | About to join various factions to find out things in confidence (7) |
| CONFIDE | Speak in confidence |
| PANACHE | Hard to enter short solution for everything in confidence |
| ONTHEQT | This tone contrived to frame question when one's lacking in confidence? |
| SECRETLY | Crete developed in cunning and in confidence |
| SCAREDYCAT | Person lacking in confidence and bravery (7-3) |
| BETWEENYOUANDME | About needy men we treated in confidence (7,3,3,2) |
| MORALE | Medical Examiner in America embraces type of vaccine in confidence (6) |
| ENTRENOUS | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
| BETWEENYIUANDME | Meet unweaned boy treated in confidence (7,3,3,2) |
| ENTRE | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
| NOUS | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
