| LITHIUM | Element, large one, hit out with hesitation (7) |
| LOAM | Good soil will make one hit out: nothing in that! (4) |
| HEATWAVE | A big one hit Russia in summer 2010 |
| SLOGANS | One hits out at the catchphrases |
| CHARLIESANGELS | Movie that made a #1 hit out of "Independent Women, Pt. 1" |
| EPITHET | Pete hit out with an adjective (7) |
| SPENDERS | Shoppers pay out with hesitation? Sure, just to start with! (8) |
| LATHI | The Parisian hit out with truncheon |
| IVANTHETERRIBLE | Believer hit out with rant against old tyrant (4,3,8) |
| TAI | CIA hit out with Chinese exercises (3,3) |
| CHI | CIA hit out with Chinese exercises (3,3) |
| LETHARGIC | Slow learner hit out with grace (9) |
| RELIEFMAP | Feel I'm worried, hit out with contoured chart (6,3) |
| BLACKMARKETEER | Dodgy dealer gets gloomy meerkat out with hesitation (5,9) |
| TERRY | A fellow to try out with hesitation? (5) |
| NEODYMIUM | I'd money laid out with hesitation for toxic metal |
| LAWYER | Legal expert left way out with hesitation (6) |
| ESTER | Set out with hesitation in compound (5) |
| STRETCHER | Be drawn out with hesitation, to carry the sick and wounded (9) |
| ERUPT | Break out with hesitation, put off (5) |
