| SAXA | Inter ____ rupesque: between the rocks and hard places |
| STUCK | between rock and hard place |
| TORMENTOR | Scourge of people between rock and hard place (9) |
| ROCKERIES | Hard places to grow plants in |
| KNOTS | Hard places on a tree |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, Italian painter and sculptor whose works include Virgin of the Rocks and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (2,5) |
| LEONARDODAVINCI | Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and engineer whose paintings include The Virgin of the Rocks and the Mona Lisa |
| OCTAVES | Go to some hollow places in the rocks and you'll find sets of eight in them (7) |
| GROUPIE | On the rocks and abandoned, could be Apple follower (7) |
| SCRAMBLER | He clambers on the rocks and runs |
| REEFERS | On the rocks and bitter? Have some smokes! (7) |
| DEBRIS | On the rocks and in pieces for clues, brides turned down to refuse? (6) |
| LANDINTHESOUP | Find oneself up the creek for encounter between a rock and a hard place (4,2,3,4) |
| GEOLOGIST | Between a rock and a hard place is that earthy professional nowadays to dig The Rolling Stones! (9) |
| INATIGHTSPOT | Between a rock and a hard place |
| BETWEENTHEDEVILANDTHEDEEPBLUES | Between a rock and a hard place |
| PROBLEMATICSITUATION | Between a rock and a hard place |
| ROCK | Between a ____ and a hard place |
| INACLEFTSTICK | Between a rock and a hard place (2,1,5,5) |
| LEFTINAQUANDARY | Caught between a rock and a hard place |
