| STEALTHY | Sly bird, tense, having timid exterior (8) |
| TALON | Claw of a bird, tense and on its own endlessly (5) |
| SHAGGY | Unkempt, timid exterior covers up a good guy at first (6) |
| SHODDY | Inferior and strange, with timid exterior |
| DIETETIC | End tense, having recalled quote about regime (8) |
| STRUNGUP | Tense, having received rough justice? (6,2) |
| OVERATE | Ring given to woman, extremely tense, having consumed too much (7) |
| PASTPERFECT | Tense, having previously done no wrong? |
| PRESIDENT | Leader kind of tense having stolen passport, say? |
| PASTOR | Minister is tense, having got nothing right (6) |
| TIGHT | Tense, having had too much to drink (5) |
| SETTO | Fight is tense, having fixed boxing ring (3-2) |
| UPTIGHT | So tense having risen in an intoxicated state (7) |
| TIMOROUS | Very timid, frightened (8) |
| HARASSER | Idiot interrupting very timid creature, right menace (8) |
| ANTELOPE | Soldier to run away, secretly timid creature (8) |
| HESITANT | Enveloped in clothes, it antagonises timid (8) |
| SHEEPISH | Timid female, do you say? Pah! (8) |
| MISPLACE | Lose timid people outside climbing mountains (8) |
| SCREECHY | Owl-like tribesmen start crawling among the timid. (8) |
