| HANDLES | Manages the situation by coming to grips with them? (7) |
| PLIERS | Tradesmen get to grips with them (6) |
| DEALT | Coped with the situation by handing people their cards (5) |
| REDRESSING | Rectifying the situation by putting clothes back on! (10) |
| MERRILY | How we roll along, quite happy coming to grips with the Italian (7) |
| EMANATE | Policeman at ease coming to grips with issue (7) |
| STORMER | Outstanding example of shop coming to grips with mass resistance (7) |
| FILOFAX | Loaf baked in tricky situation by personal organiser (7) |
| NOCANDO | Wish I could help by coming up with old forensic evidence on fleece (2,3,2) |
| HANDLER | Someone who manages the activities of intelligence agents in the field (7) |
| COFFERS | Chests: some, we hear, having trouble with them? |
| THEBOWLERS | Grossly below the belt, West Indian male seeking English dismissal (hard to get out) coming to grips with length finally, finding famous slip in cricket? (3,7,7,3,8,6) |
| CALTECH | School that manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| CHOOSER | No beggar could manage the company horse (7) |
| RANSOME | Children's author didn't manage the whole lot (7) |
| RANCOUR | Didn't quite manage the course ___ showed spite (7) |
| MAKESDO | Manages the wedding planner? (5,2) |
| RUNDALE | Manage the valley's land-tenure system |
| BURGUNDY | Keep it out of the papers, coming to grips with piece on Old Penny - the one that's drunk in France (8) |
| WRESTLING | Coming to grips with the opposition (9) |
