| MACALLAN | Fellow stifles a cry for whisky (8) |
| STOWING | When packing, hurt, stifles a cry of pain (7) |
| SINKUNIT | Wrong equipment stifles a French-style section of kitchen? (4,4) |
| ASBESTOS | A cry for help about best stuff for insulation (8) |
| SOLICITS | Asks if it's legal in a cry for help (8) |
| SOCRATES | Philosopher abandoning case makes a cry for help (8) |
| TALKOVER | Discuss easy victory, with time for whisky (4,4) |
| HIPFLASK | Portable bottle for whisky, eg (3, 5) |
| HOLYROOD | Palace in Tinseltown left abandoned, right for whisky |
| SOANDSOS | Therefore, as well as a cry for help, there are the lowlifes (2-3-3) |
| ETHE | Hot season in Paris stifles a picnic for old poets |
| RECYCLING | Poor Cringle stifles a hollow cry, 'This stuff's reusable!' (9) |
| SMOTHERS | Most confusingly, a lady's following stifles one (8) |
| IBSEN | Glib sentimentality stifles a writer (5) |
| SAXON | Early invader, child stifles a kiss (5) |
| START | Greatest artist stifles a beginning (5) |
| APPARITION | Associated Press division stifles a trainee's original spirit (10) |
| SHAKIER | Winter Olympian stifles a giggle producing more "Insecure" (7) |
| THAT | Identifies something specific as non-drinker stifles a laugh |
| LEGALESE | General stifles outbursts of lawyers' jargon (8) |
