| MOUSEDEER | Small mammal showing purpose in way with hesitant expression |
| MODEL | Pose in way with learner (5) |
| RAT | Mammal showing reduction in speed (3) |
| OTTER | Aquatic mammal showing excessive energy beside river |
| ENGAGED | Occupied, showing purpose -- good time to get stuck in (7) |
| ENID | Woman showing purpose, the first person to get stuck in (4) |
| MAFIA | Gang showing purpose, about to capture a female |
| BLEACHER | Whitewashes Banna Strand sheltering learner driver with hesitant expression (8) |
| MUM | Silent majority's leader with hesitant expression (3) |
| SUPERHUMAN | Divine stewed prunes, with hesitant expression, are swallowed |
| PEACEMAKER | Mediator getting worried came into summit with hesitant expression |
| CHRONICLER | Historian, atrocious lecturer with hesitant expression (10) |
| CAROLLER | Festive entertainer, children's author, runs off with hesitant expression (8) |
| SCUM | Lawyer with hesitant expression, refers to DIRT |
| MUTESWAN | Bird in group with hesitant utterance falling back, looking sickly |
| ENTER | New ten with hesitant go in (5) |
| OSTLER | One who had stable employment in the east of Germany left with a hesitant expression (6) |
| OPIUMDEN | Work with individual at hideout, stifling hesitant expression - it's a disreputable place |
| CONSUMES | Disposes of Tories with hesitant utterances about Europe (8) |
| HUSSAR | Looking back, artist on board has hesitant expression for old cavalryman (6) |
