| NAILBITER | Tense situation in trial, be composed (4-5) |
| YACHTSMAN | Chants may be composed by sailor ... (9) |
| GLISSANDI | What can be composed as sliding? (9) |
| TRAVELLER | Tell raver to be composed, one on a trip (9) |
| ENCELADUS | Saturn satellite thought to be composed mainly of ice (9) |
| HEADSCARF | Covering faces, hard to be composed (9) |
| KNIFEEDGE | What the chef uses in a tense situation? (5,4) |
| DRAMA | Tense situation in theatrical work (5) |
| AFTERMATH | The first Rolling Stones album to be composed entirely of Jagger-Richards songs |
| ARISTOTLE | A triolet's been composed by Greek philosopher (9) |
| SENATE | We find a tense situation in a governing body (6) |
| TIGHTROPE | Tense situation for one treading the straight and narrow (9) |
| POWDERKEG | Tense situation |
| STANDOFFS | tense situations |
| ROCK | Could it appropriately be composed in Gibraltar? (4,5) |
| MUSIC | Could it appropriately be composed in Gibraltar? (4,5) |
| SHEETMUSIC | Will need to be composed, as someone could be sleeping on this swing (5,5) |
| ATHINGOFBEAUTY | If a voyager journeys to faith, be composed: aesthetic appreciation is immortal (1,5,2,6,2,1,3,3,4) |
| OCTET | Like a double-quartet, etc, to be composed (5) |
| CONSIST | Be composed about relative informally appearing in court (7) |
