| QUANT | Quiet one avoids provocative fashion designer (5) |
| BERTH | One avoids giving someone a wide one! (5) |
| NOTON | One avoids liking taboo (3,2) |
| ADEUX | One avoids bye by involving a couple (1,4) |
| TOLET | One avoids convenience available at a price |
| OPINE | Think it's the quiet one - one on the outside (5) |
| SHIVA | The "Destroyer" from 3 and a quiet one from Virginia (5) |
| SPACE | Room. Small, quiet one (5) |
| OKAPI | The animal is fine: a quiet one (5) |
| PILOT | Airman, quiet one, with great quantity (5) |
| SHIRT | Quiet one with right garment (5) |
| OPIUM | Head of organisation, quiet one, with hesitation producing drug (5) |
| APISH | Like the monkey - the quiet one hiding in the tree (5) |
| TAPIR | Hoofed mammal, quiet one, kept by sailor |
| SHRUG | Quiet, one walked on as dismissive gesture |
| PIDOG | Vagrant mongrel - quiet one with tail |
| SUSHI | Quiet one eating American and Japanese food |
| ADATE | Delays meeting after quiet one, morose, had meal. (9,1,4) |
| PACES | Steps - quiet ones (5) |
| FLYINGSQUAD | Twice one avoids disqualifying wrong group of police (6,5) |
