| SPIELER | Glib talker replies shiftily (7) |
| ALCOHOL | Husband over in local, shiftily getting booze (7) |
| ATTACHE | Shiftily cheat at being a diplomat (7) |
| RIDDLER | Joker idled shiftily between ring leaders (7) |
| SHUFFLE | Behave shiftily before embarking on the deal (7) |
| UPGRADE | Argued shiftily about pressure to improve (7) |
| NOODLES | The simpletons sold one shiftily (7) |
| DISDAIN | Sid and I shiftily showing scorn (7) |
| PIRATED | How illegally, on the quiet, one shiftily managed to trade (7) |
| MILKRUN | Lurk shiftily in the Ministry, making routine progress |
| FISHILY | Shiftily, maybe, disposing of a letter in a suspicious way |
| HOPEAGAINSTHOPE | Papa's to phone a geisha shiftily about wish, despite everything (4,7,4) |
| DARKGLASSES | Deals grass shiftily -- kilo wrapped as shown in Polaroids? (4,7) |
| WUSS | Show us shiftily pocketing weed (4) |
| SHUFFLING | Behaving shiftily before embarking on the deal |
| PLAYFASTANDLOOSE | Act shiftily and recklessly |
| LIEDETECTOR | Loitered, etc, shiftily - this could indicate a crime |
| HEMELHEMPSTEAD | In town, man meets lad shiftily concealing drug |
| LOVEYDOVEY | Sentimental yen to get into Volvo, eyed shiftily |
| CASH | The money Monica shiftily concealed (4) |