| TOAFAULT | Excessively tense about yob and lecturer, discretely |
| TOO | Excessively tense ducks (3) |
| TOOTHPASTE | Excessively tense, perhaps, in article that needs squeezing out? |
| TOOTH | Excessively tense hour - it's a nail-biter |
| CHEQUEBOOK | Set of orders to pay? Question and discretely deplore cutting brass |
| KELLER | Helen ..., US writer and lecturer who was both blind and deaf (6) |
| HELENKELLER | American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6) |
| SAMUELCLEMENS | Real name of the author, publisher and lecturer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (6,7) |
| LEARNER | Student and lecturer to make most of time (7) |
| RADON | Artist and lecturer gas |
| HEDONIST | Bon viveur and lecturer involved in robbery (8) |
| TILER | Craftsman and lecturer in row (5) |
| STANDTRIAL | Corrupt artist and lecturer have to face justice (5,5) |
| DECORATOR | Interior designer and lecturer behind at Christmas time (9) |
| COLLECTOR | One who gathers colonel and lecturer (9) |
| BCCS | Emails to others discretely |
| POSITIVELY | Without question, veil it discretely when masked by nosegay (10) |
| MELBOURNE | This writer and lecturer, prefacing book on our Tyneside PM of former days (9) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| EAVESDROP | If you listen discretely you'll hear part of the roof is on the way down (9) |
