| STARTLED | Getting a fright at the beginning of a journey (8) |
| STORMING | Getting a fright at the beginning of a journey (8) |
| START | Get a fright at the beginning (5) |
| OUTSET | Beginning of a journey (6) |
| SCARE | Fright at discovering vehicle in the southeast (5) |
| BRIGANDS | In bands, they give people a bit of a fright (8) |
| ALARMING | Girl a man takes out is giving one a fright (8) |
| BEGINNER | Seems like a fright from the outset for one so unskilled. (8) |
| DOWNTURN | Depressed and given a fright by the slump (8) |
| SCARIEST | Actress, I fancy, most likely to cause a fright |
| RIG | Could it give you a bit of a fright on the road? |
| MURID | Zoological name for a brown rat, house mouse or related gnawing rodent that, despite being diminutive, light, slight and timorous with a tiny bite, is likely to give a suriphobe a fright (5) |
| MOON | White satellite's a fright of a sight on any good night (4) |
| SECONDSIGHT | A witch may have this assistant, bit of a fright (6,5) |
| KITTENS | Young animals produced as a result of a fright! (7) |
| SCAR | A parrot-wrasse gives one no end of a fright (4) |
| SPOOK | A man in black in the states - that'd be a fright all right! (5) |
| SHY | Old English horse's startled reaction to a fright, thus today's bashful, chary, nervous or timorous, perhaps to the point of taking flight (3) |
| TIMPANI | Instruments to make a fellow almost go into a fright |
| SCARES | Gives one a fright with a rough caress (6) |
