| APPRAISAL | One quiet and sharp given an assignment (9) |
| APPOINTED | One quiet and sharp given an assignment (9) |
| INTROVERT | Turn upside down, cover decaying rot, to make one quiet (9) |
| PROPONENT | Publicity for antagonist disposing of one quiet supporter (9) |
| DEIPAROUS | Dear old American keeping one quiet, like Mary? (9) |
| ANTIPASTI | Fabulous having no borders, keeping one quiet for starters (9) |
| DISHONOUR | One's quiet, working in dismal shame (9) |
| ANCHORAGE | Silver in an assignment for city (9) |
| PLACEMENT | Record over a bonding material to get an assignment (9) |
| ALLOCATES | A local set, strangely, gives an assignment (9) |
| SHIPSHAPE | Orderly's repeated "Silence!" keeping one quiet, the brute |
| TOODLEPIP | Obscure old poet - one quiet for so long |
| SEWERPIPE | Sweeper shuffled around one quiet waste disposal unit (5,4) |
| FOOLISH | Dessert given to one quiet and silly (7) |
| TOMBOYISH | Grave old yankee, one quiet and not conforming to a certain stereotype |
| TARNISH | Sailor, new one, quiet and dull (7) |
| SHEEPISHLY | Knowing about Dickensian clerk, one quiet and with a hangdog manner |
| SLAVISH | Belgrade citizen, maybe, one quiet and submissive (7) |
| TRAINSPOTTERISH | Coaches author, one quiet and nerdy |
| WHITISH | Little one quiet and rather pale |