| SITTINGDUCK | Smart carrying it, to avoid becoming an easy target (7,4) |
| CLEAVER | Smart, carrying a hatchet |
| ANAPPLEADAY | How to avoid becoming 1-Across, so they say |
| KEEPONESHANDIN | Daphne is keen on playing to avoid becoming rusty (4,4,4,2) |
| CONSTITUENT | Voter's OK, carrying it within trade union |
| SCAREMONGER | New game scorer becoming an alarmist |
| NONBELIEVER | Robin, eleven, becoming an atheist |
| TROUBLE | One may take it to avoid it |
| WHITELIE | You tell it to avoid hurting someone's feelings |
| GRAIN | Shave with it to avoid irritation |
| SITTINGDUCKCALL | Phone message to an easy target? |
| BARNDOOR | Stop new access if unable to hit an easy target (4,4) |
| POTSHOT | Attempt to hit an easy target (7) |
| OPENGOAL | Old writer taking shot at limerick - basically, it is an easy target (4,4) |
| ERADICATE | Get rid of the lash ___ time to finish carrying it (9) |
| EFFORT | For the little creature carrying it, it's a strain (6) |
| EDITOR | Top journalist travelled to north carrying it (6) |
| SCAR | It shows one was injured by witness carrying it (4) |
| BITE | Rabid dogs may do it or be carrying it (4) |
| AUNTSALLY | Relation's friend is an easy target (4,5) |
