| SAFECONDUCT | Freedom of movement to escort strongbox to the fore |
| PLAY | Freedom of movement to produce music (4) |
| ANIMATE | To give the appearance of movement to images of still drawings on screen (7) |
| BREAKDANCE | Style of movement to music demonstrated by the figure in this grid and a hint to the circled squares |
| ELBE | Royal treatment: Mr. Elba, dashing actor who in 2016 chose his mum to escort him to Buckingham Palace to receive the honor of membership in the Order of the British Empire |
| SUITE | Sequence of movements to satisfy the East (5) |
| TOOKNOPRISONERS | 'I told you to escort the inmates to their cells, but you ___' |
| PLAYSAFE | Toy with strongbox to minimise danger (4,4) |
| SAFEHOUSE | Strongbox to accommodate in refuge (4,5) |
| FAILSAFE | Foolproof strongbox to go wrong first (8) |
| SAFE | Strongbox to keep valuables (4) |
| STOP | Tricky having best strongbox to pull up without risk (4,6) |
| SAFELY | Tricky having best strongbox to pull up without risk (4,6) |
| MAKESAFE | Design strongbox to remove risk (4,4) |
| NURSE | Tend to go over to escort, getting one's end away (5) |
| TIGHTROPEWALKER | Wasted painter, say, has to escort top lady to see Polish circus act |
| ARMADA | Spanish fleet sent in 1588 to escort an invasion of England (6) |
| POSTCODELOTTERY | Ploy to escort Ted disrupted uneven provision of services? (8,7) |
| GRYPHON | Angry phone-in hosts being ordered to escort Alice |
| FAKETAN | Spooner to escort admirer with bronzer |
