| DONTRUSHME | Request for patience spelled using one of each unique letter in "thunderstorm": 3 wds. |
| ONESEC | Informal request for patience |
| ONESECOND | Request for patience |
| CANITWAIT | Request for patience |
| WAIT | Request for patience |
| HOLDALLTHECARDS | To dominate, be prepared for patience (4,3,3,5) |
| JOBDESCRIPTION | List of tasks from what could be man noted for patience in adversity |
| WAITANDSEE | Plea for patience as idea went astray (4,3,3) |
| WEIGHT | Importance of what sounds like a demand for patience |
| BEARWITHME | Plea for patience heard from Queen, her afternoon tea guest having arrived? |
| BEAR | Antigonus" plea for patience? (4,4,2) |
| GRISELDA | Medieval tale heroine noted for patience (8) |
| ABIDE | Word from Gothic for "patience" |
| SOLITAIRE | Awful lot is a passion for patience (9) |
| CELL | Small "popcorn" thunderstorm; or, meaning "chamber" or "storeroom", name suggested by Robert Hooke for any one of the body's trillions of protoplasmic units carrying genes (4) |
| SPRITE | A transient luminous event in the form of a bright red flash occurring above the cumulonimbus cloud of a thunderstorm; or, an elf-, fairy- or pixie-like being (6) |
| ERST | Common for a while in a superstition, a thunderstorm, a counterstrike |
| WET | We meet the start of the thunderstorm, it's raining (3) |
| TEDDYBOY | At the start of thunderstorm with swirling current, sea guide listens to Elvis impersonator (5,3) |
| CLEARTHEAIR | What thunderstorm might do to remove misunderstanding (5,3,3) |
