| MOULD | Shape that betrays a lack of freshness |
| CLICHE | A phrase that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought (6) |
| HAW | Betray a lack of confidence |
| FALTER | Betray a lack of confidence |
| EXCLAMATIONMARK | “Excessive use of ____s is [...] one of the things that betray the uneducated or unpractised writer” (HW Fowler) |
| BORODIN | Lack of freshness shown by a sculptor as a composer (7) |
| STALENESS | Lack of freshness |
| DISTORTION | Process of being twisted out of shape; that which is warped; a change of waveform as a fuzzy effect in music; or, misrepresentation of the truth (10) |
| INSULAR | Belong to a piece of land, in the main. It betrays a narrow attitude (7) |
| TRAITOR | A person who betrays a friend, cause, principle, etc (7) |
| VERDURE | From French for "green", a poetic word for flourishing grass, greenery, herbage or vegetation; its colour; or, a condition of freshness or vigour (7) |
| DAISY | Standard of freshness for a female? (5) |
| ROCK | Seaside confection; a large diamond; or, a closed hand shape that beats scissors and loses to paper in a method of selecting (4) |
| PRISMS | Polygonal solids in geometry; or, crystals of that shape that split beams of white light into spectra of colours - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet - aka ROYGBIV (6) |
| JUDAS | With biblical origins, what describes a person who betrays a friend? (5) |
| DOB | Which Australian slang term means to betray a person to authority or to kick a football accurately into a goal? (3) |
| GRASSESUP | Betrays a Nazi organisation during purges after revolution (7,2) |
| TATTLES | Betrays a sibling. say |
| SQUEALS | Betrays a secret |
| SNIFFS | Betrays a cold, maybe |
