| CHAPARRAL | Man, a happy fellow apparently, cut back thicket (9) |
| ONANDON | Biblical character, fellow apparently lasting forever (2,3,2) |
| CHEERFUL | Happy fellow, extremely unskilful, appearing after shout of encouragement (8) |
| JOLLYROGER | Standard for Morgan perhaps, happy fellow (5,5) |
| FELIX | "Happy" fellow |
| DISMEMBER | Person belonging to underworld apparently cut to pieces |
| MUMBLED | Mother apparently cut herself, but didn't say clearly (7) |
| LOVELIESBLEEDING | Pretty girls apparently cut flower |
| CANEBRAKE | Able to escape finally and stop at the thicket of bamboo (9) |
| COVER | Jacket of a book; the top sheet, blanket or quilt of a bed; a place setting at a restaurant table/formal dinner; or, a thicket used as a shelter by game (5) |
| COPPICE | Thicket cut back to provide firewood and timber (7) |
| BRUSH | A besom; a brief encounter; a fox's tail; a graze; or, a thicket (5) |
| COLLAPSE | Everyone back into the thicket for a breakdown (8) |
| COPSE | A thicket of small trees or bushes, especially one regularly trimmed back to stumps (5) |
| BRI | Group name for a number of thorny plants that form a thicket! (3,3) |
| ARS | Group name for a number of thorny plants that form a thicket! (3,3 making 6) |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| RAM | Abraham found one caught in a thicket |
| BRAMBLIEST | Least passable, as a thicket of shrubs |
| QUEACHY | Forming a thicket once quarterly every year |
