| SKIRMISH | Small Kashmiri manoeuvres avoiding a clash (8) |
| BEIGE | Safe choice for avoiding a clash, in a way |
| COLORCOORDINATED | Avoiding a clash |
| DOGFIGHT | Conflict in the air, a clash between setters, perhaps (8) |
| SHOWDOWN | A clash by which an argument or rivalry is settled (8) |
| ACUSHLAS | A clash developed about American loved ones (8) |
| SLEDDOGS | Draft animals in the documentary "Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths" |
| SERFSHIP | Bondage possibly safer avoiding a small part near groin (8) |
| LOOPHOLE | Ambiguity providing a way of avoiding a legal obligation (8) |
| NONSKIER | One avoiding a slide a€“ none risk slipping (8) |
| OUTBREAK | Rest after month in France avoiding a disturbance (8) |
| GINGERLY | With great care, drink frothy lager, avoiding a spray, ultimately (8) |
| COMMUTER | One travels to work, avoiding a true disaster (8) |
| BALLYHOO | Dance with brute, avoiding a fuss |
| SWERVING | Avoiding a pothole, perhaps |
| WINELIST | Avoiding a troublesome waistline, waiter brings this |
| ANISETTE | Prepared tisane and lapsang souchong, maybe, avoiding a drink that's alcoholic |
| JAR | A jolt; a clash of opinions; a pot for jam; a glass of beer; or, according to Shakespeare, a tick of a clock (3) |
| SMALLCHANGE | Only a tiny alteration, coming from a clash with a mangle (5,6) |
| FANAA | Hindi film where Aamir Khan plays the role of Rehan (a tourist guide), while Kajol plays a blind Kashmiri woman, Zooni |
