| UNBOUNDED | Loose journalist, having no control (9) |
| ADRIFT | Having no control over a pile of snow (6) |
| ILLDEFINED | Filled in confused journalist having no real outline (3-7) |
| TUNNELLED | Tell nun about journalist having tried to escape (9) |
| COEXISTED | Firm with old journalist, having first lived together (9) |
| REPORTERS | Journalists having a drunken spree, imbibing wine (9) |
| FATALISM | Doctrine that says humans have no control over events (8) |
| AMOK | A practice test taken orally with no control? |
| KLEPTOMANIACS | They have no control over their takings |
| PUPPET | Arrogant young man with stroke has no control over movement (6) |
| BACKSEAT | Bet a place - if your pilot is sitting here, he's no control over what happens in the race (4,4) |
| RUBOFTHEGREEN | Chance events over which one has no control (3,2,3,5) |
| NONRESTRICTIVE | Victors enter in buggy, imposing no controls (14) |
| DEPOT | Award-winning journalist having upset in store (5) |
| STARED | Celebrity with journalist having gawped (6) |
| DESPOT | Tyrant executes journalist, having been sent up (6) |
| CANED | Journalist, having gone to jail, is given corporal punishment (5) |
| MAGNETISED | Steaming about journalist having been given charge (10) |
| RETORTED | Awful rotter with journalist having replied sharply (8) |
| STAFFED | Stick with journalist having employees (7) |
