| RAW | Pictured with top dropped and bottom out of view, ie in the scud |
| FURTIM | Adv. secretly, ie in the manner of a thief |
| NETSCAPE | Web browser that lost to Internet Explorer in the first browser war (8) |
| CHERUBINI | One of the composers, ie, in Bruch, Brahms and Liszt |
| OFFSTAGE | Put down mount out of view of the house |
| BACKSTAGE | Football player, male with little energy and out of view |
| ERATO | Goddess pictured with a lyre and a crown of roses |
| THOTH | Egyptian god usually pictured with the head of an ibis |
| BIBULOUS | Inclined to drink, single short tramp in women's clothing, bottom out (8) |
| NADIR | Bottom out at this point in a dirty clip? (5) |
| HEALTHSPA | Remedy for the spam bottoms out twice - and that's meant to relax you? (6,3) |
| COOK | New Zealand's highest mountain was (re)named in honour of this explorer in the 19th Century. (4) |
| IBERIAN | Brian ie in trouble coming from the peninsula (7) |
| LEILA | All ie in make-up of a girl (5) |
| CURVATURE | Dog, very old, with head dropped and arching (9) |
| ECLIPSE | When light's dropped and left in broken pieces |
| MALINGERED | Mum and daughter collect underwear I dropped and put it on (10) |
| DIEDOUT | With no water, river dropped and disappeared (4,3) |
| SHOWER | Disparaging British military slang for a group of people regarded as incompetent, untidy or a worthless bane; moreover, a flight of arrows, pelting of hail or scud of rain (6) |
| EAST | Surname of the boy nicknamed 'Scud' in Tom Brown's Schooldays (4) |