| SLIPPERINESS | Press piles in, dreadful for evasive character |
| SIDESTEP | Perhaps the right stage for evasive action |
| FREELANCE | Independent, evasive character stationed in the country (9) |
| SHIFTINESS | Deceitful and evasive character |
| EEL | An elver, grig or snig caught by means of basket, buck, trap, sniggle or weel; or, an elusive/evasive character who is slippery or hard to catch (3) |
| STACKS | Piles in time put in large bags (6) |
| COYOTE | Evasive characters in motel could be US hunters |
| PADEREWSKI | With defective C, a wrecked piano is dreadful for pianist |
| EGREGIOUS | It's dreadful for one dealing with soldier, old American (9) |
| DISASTER | Turkey twizzles I assert beyond dreadful for starters (8) |
| DYER | It sounds dreadful for colourful worker (4) |
| COMPOSTS | Piles in the yard, maybe |
| CAIRNS | Rock piles in Australia. (6) |
| DISPEL | Scatter piles in a mess under top of dustbin (6) |
| SHAGCARPET | One has piles in a tidy room |
| ANDWENDY | Wren adapted penny dreadful for film of 18Dn's work (5,3,3,5) |
| PETERPAN | Wren adapted penny dreadful for film of 18Dn's work (5,3,3,5) |
| ESTACADE | A dike of piles in a morass, river, etc, against an enemy (8) |
| ESPIAL | Observation of a pile's in the wrong order (6) |
| EPISODAL | In noteworthy incident caustic chemical penetrates pile in meltdown (8) |
