| CONVICT | Send down rook, queen half hidden (7) |
| WRITERSCRAMP | Put down rook and leave pawn in discomfort (7,5) |
| CONSTERNATION | Panic seeing rook, queen and knight in position (13) |
| RULERS | Struggling, finally level, use two rooks, queen and king perhaps? |
| SETPIECES | Perhaps put down rooks in corners, for example? |
| SCUTTLE | Send down to get a container (7) |
| TRAINEE | Send down, into the starting place, the pupil (7) |
| LINEKER | Passenger ship, keel half hidden, one familiar with pitches (7) |
| DEBATED | Bather half hidden by activity to be formally discussed (7) |
| MUFFLER | Miss Gabler, top half hidden, in a scarf (7) |
| SHADIER | More cunning hoarder keeping vice half hidden (7) |
| SAVVIER | More cunning hoarder keeping vice half hidden (7) |
| ASTRIDE | On top of a tree, half hidden inside camp (7) |
| DENTINE | Half-hidden point inside a tooth (7) |
| MISLEAD | Send down the wrong path |
| TREACLE | Sticky solution to a clue, half-hidden in part of the orchard (7) |
| DENHAAG | City that's half-hidden, with area guarded by witch |
| SNOOPER | Nosy type soon disturbed, person half hidden |
| CARIBOU | Jaguar perhaps bounds half-hidden, pursuing one deer |
| CONFINE | Send down |
