| LETSLEEPINGDOGSLIE | Leave well alone and refrain from stirring up trouble (3,8,4,3) |
| BITEONESTONGUE | Suffer an accident during meal and refrain from passing comment |
| ESTOPS | Prevents legally from stirring up posset (6) |
| SITSUP | Becomes alert and refrains from retiring (4,2) |
| TAWNIER | Browner from stirring in water. (7) |
| JIVE | Jack left out from stirring American dance (4) |
| LETSLEEPING | Leave well alone (in the kennels?) (3,8,4,3) |
| NOLIMETANGERE | No citrus flavour before with balsam? Leave well alone! (4,2,7) |
| LALO | French composer to leave well alone (4) |
| IFITAINTBROKE | You should probably leave well alone ...! (2,2,4,5) |
| TINKERS | Can't leave well enough alone |
| AULDLANGSYNE | Scottish phrase meaning "old long since" that was popularised by Robert Burns as the title and refrain of a song in 1788 and is sung on New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the old year ever since (4,4,4 |
| CITING | Making reference to stirring up trouble without being fashionable (6) |
| INCENDIARY | Local journal about engineer stirring up trouble (10) |
| ECHOLALIA | Ole chap endlessly stirring up trouble, repeating what is heard (9) |
| OUTSIDEAGITATOR | One stirring up trouble for management |
| MISCHIEFMAKING | Action of stirring up trouble by foremost among imams irritated ruler (8-6) |
| ACTIVIST | Penultimate part of Macbeth - first character stirring up trouble? |
| MISCHIEFMAKER | One stirring up trouble (8-5) |
| DESISTS | After changing sides, tenor and soprano taking openings and refrains (7) |
