| FISHOUTOFWATER | Infer one has to cry to utility regulator being unable to breathe (4,3,2,5) |
| ASPHYXIA | State of being unable to breathe (8) |
| AMC | Where movie lovers go "to laugh, to cry, to care," per a popular ad starring Nicole Kidman |
| POLLUTE | Dirty nut next to utility vehicle (7) |
| EDUCEADEUCE | Infer one of the wild cards? |
| OFGAS | Former government utility regulator |
| APNOEA | Unable to breathe so we get Ada to open wide |
| CHOKE | Be unable to breathe |
| CLAUSTROPHOBIA | Person afraid of being unable to get out of a small place (14) |
| SWEEP | Son has to cry, seeing subject of The Water Babies |
| CHESTER | Where a saint has to cry out encouragingly (7) |
| BOSS | Governor has to cry about son |
| PYROMANIA | Rare impulse-control disorder that results in an individual being unable to resist the temptation to |
| IMPUTE | Charge one: being unable to speak, keeping quiet (6) |
| DROPOFF | Go to sleep, being unable to hang on (4,3) |
| NESTLING | Listen to rock, no good being unable to leave home (8) |
| INSOMNIA | One trashed mansion, being unable to get out? (8) |
| INSOMNIAC | Being unable to sleep, man who murdered doctor's returned to home |
| BOTTLEFED | Shift bed to left, being unable to drink milk naturally? (6-3) |
| STENOSIS | Being unable to go to session abroad, ring off |
