| SAFEDISTANCE | Separation to avoid risk |
| ISOLATION | Separation, to a lion, is upsetting (9) |
| BEONTHESAFESIDE | Bishop one head sees fit to move to avoid risk (2,2,3,4,4) |
| LEERIEST | Most careful to avoid risk of crossing lake |
| TAKENOCHANCES | Kidnapped by officer with high explosives overseeing African party to avoid risk (4,2,7) |
| PLAYSAFE | Puts down a force during exercise to avoid risk |
| HEDGEHOG | To avoid risk, appropriate one’s back should be well protected! |
| PLAYITSAFE | Quarry place sealed vault to avoid risks (4,2,4) |
| UNIONISM | Policy opposing to separation (8) |
| ALIMONY | Payment to spouse after separation (7) |
| DISCONNECTION | Innocent disco dancing leads to separation (13) |
| COMMASPLICE | Misuse of punctuation in a sentence that leads to awkward separation of main clauses: 2 wds. |
| CLOSEDTHEGAP | Caught up in contest to shutdown article on separation (6,3,3) |
| PALIMONY | Payment after separation -- intend to keep one pound in twenty-five sterling (8) |
| WATERSHED | Married to conceal broken hearts - that's the point of separation (9) |
| SCHISM | A separation between to groups in a larger group (6) |
| CLEAVAGE | About to go, welcoming a good degree of separation (8) |
| ALLEGE | Claim for legal separation that's to the point |
| KITTREDGE | "Six Degrees of Separation" family name |
| GUARE | "Six Degrees of Separation" playwright John |
