| CHRONICLER | Historian, atrocious lecturer with hesitant expression (10) |
| SUPERHUMAN | Divine stewed prunes, with hesitant expression, are swallowed |
| PEACEMAKER | Mediator getting worried came into summit with hesitant expression |
| BLEACHER | Whitewashes Banna Strand sheltering learner driver with hesitant expression (8) |
| MUM | Silent majority's leader with hesitant expression (3) |
| MOUSEDEER | Small mammal showing purpose in way with hesitant expression |
| CAROLLER | Festive entertainer, children's author, runs off with hesitant expression (8) |
| SCUM | Lawyer with hesitant expression, refers to DIRT |
| LEGUME | Limb presented with hesitant expression to sweetheart, to find pulse |
| PUNIER | Increasingly feeble wordplay Everyman offered with hesitant expression |
| HIJACKER | Greeting sailor with hesitant expression: perhaps a pirate? |
| DRUM | Instrument used by medic with hesitant expression |
| TASER | Stunner posed on the counter with hesitant expression (5) |
| LUMPIT | See learner with hesitant expression point upwards, to suggest what they can do if they don't like it |
| ILLUSTRATE | Indian lecturer with judge describing passion in show (10) |
| RINGLEADER | Lecturer with endless fire within is chief troublemaker |
| DONALDDUCK | Funny old character, lecturer with nothing on funny lad (6,4) |
| LEMOTJUSTE | Lecturer with big book about gravy boat culture finally finds desired piece of terminology (2,3,5) |
| MUTESWAN | Bird in group with hesitant utterance falling back, looking sickly |
| ENTER | New ten with hesitant go in (5) |
