| XCHROMOSOME | Take two balloons, hold them side by side, then twist the whole thing in the middle |
| CONTAIN | "The Brain-is wider than the Sky- / For-put them side by side- / The one the other will ____" (Emily Dickinson) |
| SAUSAGELINKS | Take a pink balloon, twist it in the middle, then twist at both ends |
| STAPLE | Thing in the middle of a centrefold |
| NUMBERSEVEN | Hook two balloons together at the end, bend slightly |
| ENTITY | Whole thing in itself |
| DISTORT | It's trod on so twist it aside |
| GOBETWEEN | He approaches one side then the other |
| TURNTHEOTHERCHEEK | There's an intersection where you'll have to navigate with your rear end. First, lean into one side, then ___. |
| SWADDLE | Is starting to sway from side to side, so may need to get bandaged up (7) |
| LISTLESS | Don't lean to the side so much, having no energy (8) |
| SQUIRREL | Gentleman embracing one side, then another, is to hide away |
| TOWS | Pulls to one side, then another (4) |
| REAR | Brand buttocks, right side then left (4) |
| THORN | Irritant in one's side, so to speak |
| THREW | Chucked internally to the other side, so to speak (5) |
| BYPRODUCT | It is made on the side, so to speak (2-7) |
| MAKEWORSE | Twist the knife in the wound |
| WORSENASITUATION | Twist the knife in the wound |
| WREST | Violently twist the others, by the sound of it (5) |
