| CAUSEOFFENCE | Reason for a barrier to give affront |
| SCREEN | Word, from "protect", for a barrier, covering, divider, guard, partition or other shield or shelter and, ultimately, a display surface, aka VDU, with which to interact daily in our digital world (6) |
| FLOODGATE | Destiny has left good design for a barrier (9) |
| HEDGE | Gee! Heed the necessity for a barrier (5) |
| DOORNAILS | They are dead fasteners for a barrier (9) |
| OBSTACLE | A barrier to progress for some races (8) |
| DAMNATION | Expletive is a barrier to a race (9) |
| FENCE | A barrier to a criminal |
| AGITATE | Stir up public feeling to get a barrier to protect it (7) |
| SEAWALL | A barrier to stop a body of water encroaching on an area of land (3,4) |
| TAPE | After a barrier to crime, Hitchcock initially does movie reels to make family films (4,4,6) |
| HOMEVIDEOS | After a barrier to crime, Hitchcock initially does movie reels to make family films (4,4,6) |
| ADAMSALE | A barrier to trading in old water (4'1,3) |
| ADAMSWINE | Water is a barrier to pig (5,4) |
| DAMS | Builds a barrier to keep back water |
| CORDONSANITAIRE | In unusual conditions, rare blood group is a barrier to infection |
| BOOM | A barrier to economic prosperity? (4) |
| PAYWALL | A barrier to the free press? (7) |
| EVENTHEN | Still air forming a barrier to energy layer (4,4) |
| CATTLEGRID | Feline let out by network as a barrier to other animals |
