| SWINGTHELEAD | Idiom meaning to pretend to be ill and shirk work (5,3,4) |
| RAIL | Bird, rook, to be ill and weak |
| MALINGERS | Mother hangs around and shirks work (9) |
| POSSUM | Play ____, expression meaning 'to pretend to be asleep or unconscious' (6) |
| YORKSHIREWOMEN | Ladies up north sign on in other words and shirk working in wood (14) |
| SHORTSKIRTS | Trots around and shirks, riding about in Minis (5,6) |
| MALINGER | Suspect German about fifty-one gets to pretend to be ill (8) |
| MAKEENDSMEET | Idiom meaning to earn just enough to live on (4,4,4) |
| EXACT | Former lover has to pretend to be faithful (5) |
| CHARACTERISTIC | Typical of cleaner to pretend to be argumentative |
| PUTONAIRS | Puritan so wrong to pretend to be superior |
| PLAYDEAD | Delay with pad used to pretend to be passed on (4,4) |
| IMPERSONATE | To pretend to be someone else (11) |
| PLAY | It's along to pretend to co-operate and it's up to be naughty (4) |
| PANTOMIME | To pretend to sing on track for show (9) |
| LIPSYNC | To pretend to sing by matching the mouth movements of vocals (3,4) |
| FEINT | To pretend to combine iron with tin, maybe (5) |
| FEIGN | (v.) to pretend; to assert a falsehood as if it were true |
| GRASPTHENETTLE | Idiom meaning to be brave and force oneself to do something unpleasant (5,3,6) |
| CHAMPAGNE | Pretend to be ill, we hear, to get a drink (9) |
