| ICEMAN | Nickname for a clutch player |
| GOTO | ___ guy: clutch player |
| SNAPPER | Word for a clutch of things including a biting turtle, an Irish baby, a paper banger, a party cracker, a photographer, a redfish or a whiplash attachment (7) |
| NEST | Structure built by a bird in the spring for a clutch of eggs (4) |
| GRIP | A hand clench; a clutch bag; a hair clasp; a handle; a hug; grasp of a subject; or, a hold on one's emotions (4) |
| SITTING | A period of perching on a chair; an assembly, meeting, seance or other session; a spell of posing for an artist; or, a clutch of eggs (7) |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| SETTING | A clutch of hen's eggs in a nest; "mise en scene" of a film or stage play; adaptation to music; or, the direction of a current of wind (7) |
| GRASP | A clutch of a nettle, for example; or, intellectual hold or understanding (5) |
| HIHAT | Part of a drum kit that has a clutch |
| RBI | Result of a clutch hit, maybe, for short |
| TWOOUT | Like a situation in which a clutch hitter might shine |
| AUTOMATIC | Mother with a twitch is after car without a clutch! (9) |
| EGG | Object forming a clutch; or, a Faberge item in the shape of thus (3) |
| HEN | Clucker with a clutch |
| SAVEPAR | Make a clutch putt, perhaps |
| TALON | Element in a clutch performance? |
| LAID | Added to a clutch |
| HENS | Birds in a clutch |
| NESTEGG | One of a clutch of savings |
