| SKATEONTHINICE | Get into a precarious situation with each token sit-in sadly (5,2,4,3) |
| CLOSETOTHEEDGE | In a precarious position (5,2,3,4) |
| ONTHINICE | Abuse of nicotine keeps husband in a precarious situation (2,4,3) |
| ONAKNIFEEDGE | Where butter may be in a precarious situation (2,1,5,4) |
| PLIGHT | A precarious situation for a soft illumination (6) |
| THINICE | Skating on ___ (in a precarious situation) |
| KNIFESEDGE | What a precarious situation is said to balance on |
| TREADSCAREFULLY | Navigates a precarious situation |
| HAIRY | Like a precarious situation |
| SWORDOFDAMOCLES | With minimal support, it put consumer in precarious situation in court |
| KNIFEEDGE | On a ____, phrase describing a situation with a precarious outcome (5,4) |
| THINKTWICE | Wife after skirts in Kuwait, in precarious situation - don't be hasty! (5,5) |
| HANGBYATHREAD | Be in precarious situation a€“ as the Sword of Damocles? (4,2,1,6) |
| TEDIUM | One stuck in sadly muted state of boredom (6) |
| ADOPTED | Took on musical work in sadly dated surroundings (7) |
| LOGICAL | I go back in sadly. Call that rational? (7) |
| ONEWAYTICKET | Taking road in, sadly notice market's half abandoned - used to go there (3-3,6) |
| PARALYSE | Son involved in sadly real pay freeze (8) |
| ALPACAS | Wool-growers had clipped back pack and packed it in, sadly (7) |
| PRIZEMONEY | Purse containing zero — empty in sadly no time |