| HAGRIDDEN | Strangely daring, he'd been beset by women (3-6) |
| HITCHHIKES | Travels freely in India having been beset by delays around Hong Kong (10) |
| DISCOLOUR | Mark is about to be beset by anguish (9) |
| LASHEDOUT | When he'd been grasped by the boor, attacked (6,3) |
| BIGHEADED | Arrogant tailor: he'd be glad, I being short of length (9) |
| WORDSMITH | Promise forger he'd be good at coining? |
| DEBAUCHER | He'd be a cur otherwise, this assailant (9) |
| EEUIC | Barred absent member first to be beset by trouble |
| ILLEGAL | Barred absent member first to be beset by trouble |
| SMALLPOX | Where restaurants may be beset by some pernicious, primarily bovine disease |
| OSTEOMALACIA | About to be beset by a malaise too upsetting - softening of the bones? (12) |
| THEMANINTHEMOON | He'd been looking down on us forever - like a lunatic - till we knew better! (3,3,2,3,4) |
| ABASHED | Humbled by a sailor as he'd been known to do (7) |
| HOOKED | Ring? OK, inside he'd been held up on the line (6) |
| HEATED | Warmed it up and he'd been about to eat (6) |
| ORPHAN | Lawrence, a well-known author from Maenporth, lacked maturity to begin with -- he'd been badly affected, being a child with no parents (6) |
| ADOPTED | Jai Sharma was horrified to find he'd been ___ by Rishi in Emmerdale (7) |
| HOPED | Wished he'd been out of work (5) |
| HALLOWED | He'd been about to allow it to be holy (8) |
| HINDENBURG | Burning, he'd been destroyed after taking to the air (10) |
