| GRAVITATE | Move by pull of attraction (9) |
| KNAVERY | Up-and-coming minister held by pull of wickedness (7) |
| FULLSTOP | Holy man captivated by pull of Byzantine period (4,4) |
| MEMORANDA | Notes heartless move by way of working with African country, deporting the weak (9) |
| MANHANDLE | Move by human effort alone (9) |
| DARTBOARD | Sudden move by directors to establish target (9) |
| FREEWHEEL | Move (by bicycle) without pedalling (9) |
| MAKESHIFT | Force move by substitute (9) |
| ELOPEMENT | Operation in part producing secret move by a pair? (9) |
| TRAINLOAD | Rational move by 500 - all those going to Waterloo? (9) |
| STROKE | A beat of a heart; a hit of a ball in golf or tennis; a solidus or virgule; a pull of an oar; a sound of a clock's chime; or, a sudden sweep of genius or luck (6) |
| CLASSMATE | Winning move by constant girl, one's school contemporary |
| LOUNGEBAR | Sudden move by lawyers to secure round in drinking-hole |
| ENPASSANT | Chess move, by the way (2,7) |
| LAT | Back muscle strengthened by pull-ups for short |
| LATS | Muscles developed by pull-ups, for short |
| CANOPENERS | Gadgets largely replaced by pull tabs |
| HAUL | Pull with force / amount of fish taken in a single pull of a net |
| TIDE | Cyclical ebb and flow of the sea caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon (4) |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
