| ENTERPRISING | Logging new rips inside, being resourceful |
| SURPRISE | Certain about new rips being a shock (8) |
| PERIWINKLE | Like new rip made in shellfish (10) |
| CLEVER | A number bring pressure to bear, being resourceful (6) |
| CREATIVE | I've to cater, being resourceful (8) |
| EXTERNAL | Timeless times: being inside, being outside |
| SAFE | Prepared envelope, inside being strong and secure (4) |
| FRAIL | Collapse right inside, being weak (5) |
| MAMMALS | Mater's left inside, being bats? |
| AGITATED | Old French actor retired inside, being worried |
| LIBRETTO | Bottle I found drifting - inside being sailor's last text |
| IMMATURE | Confine with a temperature inside, being young |
| PECAN | Writer's about to get put inside, being a nut |
| CONFINEMENT | Prisoner given punishment encountered any number inside being locked up |
| EMENDED | Finished up with me inside being subjected to correction |
| IGNORANT | I admit limited number inside, being rude (8) |
| DAINTY | Day in, wasting time inside, being delicate (6) |
| BIGSHOT | Am ushered inside, being mistaken for celebrity (3,4) |
| CALLOW | Frighten all inside being inexperienced |
| SLEEPY | Secret agent takes shelter inside, being tired |
