| RETRIEVAL | Rescue injured relative, overcoming resistance (9) |
| EXCURSIVE | Making detours, rescue injured, 10 and 4 in different places (9) |
| SPORTSMAN | Player notices husband overcoming resistance (9) |
| ABERRANCE | Overcoming resistance, president conducted cosmic expedition's starting points and departure (9) |
| PUTACROSS | Explain Tom's eaten tortilla, overcoming resistance |
| BERINGSEA | Creatures overcoming resistance with each lot of cold water |
| FLIPCHART | Facetious chat overcoming resistance; it helps the presentation (4,5) |
| STORMDOOR | Most rocks, overcoming resistance, cross over house's extra weather protection (5,4) |
| PIERCE | Run through section, overcoming resistance (6) |
| CORPS | Army unit overcoming resistance with police officers |
| GROTTO | Overcoming resistance, arrived at cave |
| APRESSKI | Overcoming resistance, sip sake, involved in social occasion |
| ACCRA | Capital - electricity flowing both ways, overcoming resistance |
| TYPEWRITERS | Overcoming resistance, pretty wise to convert old office equipment |
| PRENUP | Writer, overcoming resistance, completed contract for union |
| PRONG | With smell overcoming resistance, one gets stuck into dinner |
| BRENGUN | Weapon offered by reformed pirate almost overcoming resistance |
| OGRE | Brute with twisted personality overcoming resistance |
| FORSTER | Overcoming resistance, promote author |
| FREEASSOCIATION | Overcoming resistance, charge society for psychoanalytic technique |