| ALLAYS | Relieves fear, etc., with a witty sally |
| APHORISM | Is Harpo Marx starting to make a witty sally (8) |
| REASSURINGLY | In a manner to relieve fear and anxiety (12) |
| ALLAY | No runt naturally will relieve fear (5) |
| PURITAN | Educated woman's witty sally about a strait-laced type (7) |
| CENSOR | Check contents of letter, play etc with a view to deleting passages (6) |
| VELVET | A closely-woven fabric of silk, cotton, etc., with a thick, short pile on one side |
| YOKING | Linking (oxen, horses etc) with a harness |
| ATOMIC | With a witty remark put back in charge of a small unit |
| AMBLER | Novelist famous for The Mask Of Dimitrios, Journey Into Fear, etc (4,6) |
| RIBBON | A taenia of satin or silk etc with which to make a cockade, fillet or rosette; or, something strip-like, such as a band-saw or a mollusc's radula (6) |
| RIVETS | Faces (a rampart, wall, etc) with masonry, especially in fortification (6) |
| LINED | Covered the inside surface of a garment, a box, etc. with a layer of usually different material |
| ICED | Description of a bun, cake etc with a sugary glaze; or, of tea, for example, chilled with frozen cubes (4) |
| RAKER | One who scrapes together grass, hay, leaves, straw etc with a comb-like crossbar on a long handle; said implement used; or, a scavenger (5) |
| SLAMS | Shuts a door etc. with a bang (5) |
| BRANDING | Marking a cow, etc, with a hot iron (8) |
| TECHIE | He may get involved with IT etc with no end of excitement (6) |
| OBLONG | Figure it's what covers Wimbledon etc with pine (6) |
| ERMINE | Carnivore taking head off rats etc with minimum of effort (6) |
