| TREADWATER | Keep one's head up when thrown in at the deep end (5,5) |
| EASED | Relieved when thrown in river after coming up (5) |
| TOWEL | Surrender sign, when thrown in |
| SINKORSWIM | Choice when one is thrown in at the deep end, literally or figuratively (10) |
| TYPINGPOOL | Where an office worker was thrown in at the deep end? (6,4) |
| END | Be thrown in at the deep ___ |
| ABOVEWATER | Where to keep one's head to remain out of trouble (5,5) |
| TAKETHEPLUNGE | Make up one's mind to dive in at the deep end (4,3,6) |
| SUNKEN | Nuns travelling around Kildare dropped in at the deep end perhaps (6) |
| TAKE | Even if in at the deep end, go for it! (4,3,6) |
| THEPLUNGE | Even if in at the deep end, go for it! (4,3,6) |
| SOUTHERNER | Native from one quarter runs to here when thrown out (10) |
| PLAITED | Going off at the deep end, detail to get the hair dressed (7) |
| PLOVER | Bird at the deep end has bit on the side (6) |
| ADMINISTER | Head up |
| AGUE | Complaint of a visitor, good person going off at the deep end |
| POPULACE | People at the deep end leap out to swim (8) |
| NODS | Moves one's head up and down in agreement |
| PURE | Unpolluted water at the deep end |
| FLOAT | Keep one's head above water when there's nothing in the tenement (5) |
