| DOORTODOOR | Jolly troops twice quelling trouble like round trip |
| ORATOR | Troops twice grab a tense person with good address? (6) |
| SATSUMA | An essential, like round fruit (7) |
| AILANTHUS | Trouble like this about an ornamental tree |
| TURBULENT | Blunt and true, in trouble like Becket? |
| OFFTHEHOOK | Out of trouble like animal released from trap? (3,3,4) |
| RETRO | In dire trouble, like in the past (5) |
| INHOTWATER | Encountering trouble, like one using bathtub? (2,3,5) |
| PLAINSAILING | By treeless zones having trouble, like falling off a log? (5,7) |
| INTHESOUP | Heading for trouble -- like croutons? (2,3,4) |
| INTHESAMEBOAT | Sharing common troubles, like shipmates |
| ENNUIS | Troubles like boredom |
| AGUE | Debate quelling monarch's fever (4) |
| OHM | Sacred mantra quelling Henry's resistance |
| MERCIA | Thanks French for quelling a kingdom, Anglo-Saxon |
| ASPIRIN | Drug aiming at quelling the first sign of gout |
| ODIUM | Place to speak from, quelling initial repugnance |
| ENORMITY | Dislike quelling men's outrage (8) |
| RIOTS | SA capital's quelling tense disturbances (5) |
| ALLAYING | Quelling a liberal, emulating a chicken? |
