| LEPIDOPTERAN | Insect sadly trapped in hole - hard to get out (12) |
| OVERHIT | Perhaps putt past the hole, hard one in Open |
| OUBLIETTE | Bluetit sadly trapped in old European dungeon |
| ALAS | Sadly trapped in criminal assembly (4) |
| GAWP | Stare stupidly, wife having become trapped in hole |
| PIECRUST | Fawn's trapped in hole that blackbirds escaped from |
| MAZE | Amazed to find it in it and hard to get out of it (4) |
| PILOT | Steer, behold, trapped in hole |
| SNEERED | Rene sadly trapped by second journalist had a contemptuous look (7) |
| THEBOWLERS | Grossly below the belt, West Indian male seeking English dismissal (hard to get out) coming to grips with length finally, finding famous slip in cricket? (3,7,7,3,8,6) |
| INTEGRATE | Mix in the jar hard to get out (9) |
| SNOOKERED | Put in situation hard to get out of? Possibly, providing one red's OK (9) |
| RUT | It may be hard to get out of |
| COMA | It may be hard to get out of |
| HABIT | Costume hard to get out of |
| MORASS | Bog - situation hard to get out of (6) |
| CLOT | Lump hard to get out of fabric (4) |
| TROUGH | Hard to get out of completed channel (6) |
| RADISH | Root is hard to get out (6) |
| CARTAGE | Business of transporting stuff -- hard to get out of old African capital (7) |
