| RETAINS | Keeps in fixed state or condition / keeps in mind / continues to practice |
| KEEPONESHANDIN | Continue to practice, as a profession |
| COMMITSTOMEMORY | Keeps in mind more than one of those in 7 down, in a similar sense (7,2,6) |
| STASIS | A state or condition in which there is no action or progress (6) |
| ANOMIE | State or condition originally described by Emile Durkheim, characterised by hopelessness in society as a result of lack of structure or an absence of norms (6) |
| FETTLE | State or condition of health, fitness, wholeness, spirit or form (6) |
| RETROGRESSION | Reversion to an earlier, especially worse, state or condition |
| MORTMAIN | In law, the state or condition of property held inalienably by a corporation, derived from a word for 'dead hand' |
| ZERO | - gravity; state or condition of apparent weightlessness (4) |
| ZEROG | Informal name for the state or condition of weightlessness (4-1) |
| HALITOSIS | The state or condition of having bad breath |
| SERVITUDE | The state or condition of a slave (9) |
| OSIS | Suffix meaning "state or condition" |
| LIMBO | Intermediate state or condition (5) |
| TENSION | Strained state or condition (7) |
| LAPSE | Pass into a specified state or condition |
| STATUSQUO | Existing state or condition (6,3) |
| MATRIMONY | State or condition of being married |
| MEMORIAL | A commemorative or thing intended to keep in mind a specific person or event |
| ESTABLISHMENT | Found some workers, at last, in a fixed state (13) |
