| TOMBOYISH | Grave old yankee, one quiet and not conforming to a certain stereotype |
| EXCEPTION | Something not conforming to a rule |
| LEGIT | Bolt conforming to a certain standard |
| STILTON | Mostly quiet and not up to it, I have a place on the board |
| GENTLEFOLK | Well-bred people, quiet and not from the county (10) |
| STEALTHY | Quiet and not noticed by people |
| GENDERFLUID | Not conforming to male or female stereotypes, and a hint to the word scrambled within 17-, 27- and 44- Across |
| GENDERCREATIVE | Not conforming to traditional male/female norms, and a hint to this puzzle's circles |
| ATYPICAL | A pity changes to American state are not conforming to type |
| UNMOSAIC | What might have one piece per member country, not conforming to certain law |
| TREF | Not conforming to certain laws, the football official? He must go! |
| IRREGULAR | Not conforming to rules, one member of gang helping Sherlock? (9) |
| UNGRAMMATICAL | Not conforming to the rules of a language (13) |
| SHEEPISHLY | Knowing about Dickensian clerk, one quiet and with a hangdog manner |
| FOOLISH | Dessert given to one quiet and silly (7) |
| SPANISHCIVILWAR | Arch one, quiet and polite unprepared to back foreign conflict (7,5,3) |
| ILLICIT | Bad computer technology includes integrated circuit not conforming to regulations |
| GENREBUSTING | Green maybe, but not conforming to current standards |
| ECCENTRICS | People perceived as not conforming to the norm |
| IRREGULARVERB | Word of action not conforming to the usual pattern! (9,4) |
