| SURE | For certain there's a ruse employed here |
| CONCERTINAS | Con's certain there's a way to play on them (11) |
| CASTING | Die employed here to throw shell across back of fort |
| SINECURE | Nice ruse employed in finding a cushy job (8) |
| USER | Ruse employed to trap the consumer (4) |
| UNDRESS | Diabolical ruses employed to get around North Dakota, "The Altogether State" (7) |
| CENSURE | After first sign of crime, make certain there's condemnation |
| ENSURE | Make certain there's break to see run (6) |
| INSURES | Certain there's terrible sin about, takes precautions |
| ENSUE | Make certain there's no resistance to follow (5) |
| ENSURING | Gun siren making certain there is no problem (8) |
| SUREENOUGH | Certain there is sufficient as one would expect (4,6) |
| AWHILE | A ruse, it's said, for a short time (6) |
| CAESURA | A division in a poem about a ruse being overturned (7) |
| DODGE | A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ri |
| ARTIFICE | A deceptive manoeuvre, a ruse (8) |
| LEISURE | A lie and a ruse may obtain free time (7) |
| THESAURUS | A ruse thus set out in a book (9) |
| EURASIA | Deploying a ruse gets one a great deal of land |
| SAUERKRAUT | A ruse deployed by Ottoman retreat round a pickle (10) |
