| LIFEBOATS | Means to rescue European snake trapped by elevators |
| TEASPOON | Measure European snake trapped in Scots town (8) |
| LIFELINES | Means to rescue big cat half-eaten by others |
| LIFEGUARD | Shocking failure to rescue girl starting to drown - he might get sacked for it (9) |
| MESSIANIC | Muddle with man in charge aiming to rescue the situation? (9) |
| LIFERAFTS | How to rile the staff then get them to rescue you (4,5) |
| SINECURES | Sin and how to rescue one from it without working too hard (9) |
| PERSECUTE | Pursue one managing to rescue pet (9) |
| DIPLOMACY | It may help to rescue a country from mad policy (9) |
| ANALGESIA | Dash back to rescue head of government in China, say - it's painless (9) |
| SOSOSTRIS | Drunkard stifling call for help - first to rescue is the poet's clairvoyante (9) |
| LOHENGRIN | Portrayed in a Wagnerian opera, knight who travels in a swan-drawn boat to rescue heroine Elsa of Brabant (9) |
| STBERNARD | Very large dog of a breed originally kept by monks to rescue travellers (2,7) |
| UPSANDDOWNS | Changes made by elevators (3,3,5) |
| SHORTWAVE | Worth somehow coming in to rescue radio? |
| FREEMASON | His order's a secret one to rescue close family members |
| TRYTOSAVE | Attempt to rescue stray vote, after a fashion (3,2,4) |
| BOGOTA | Got the snake trapped? That's capital! |
| GENOTYPE | Hydrogen extracted from European snake, say, reversing molecular constitution (8) |
| PLEASEDASPUNCH | Delighted, let out snake trapped in box (7,2,5) |
