| FORCEDSALE | Terrible fear closed business that underwent this? (6,4) |
| DRWHO | TV character that underwent a sex change in 2018 |
| USSR | Country that underwent perestroika in the eighties and nineties: Abbr. |
| GER | Nat. that underwent reunification |
| COLOSSI | I closed business with deficit in large figures (7) |
| EARTHLING | Perhaps you, with broken heart closed business early; gone at the end (9) |
| OVERCOAT | Closed business beside Inverness |
| SEWAGEFARM | Terrible fears about salary for many, where work stinks (6,4) |
| UNDERSTOOD | Underwent |
| SEAFRET | Ready to contain terrible fear in a kind of haze (3,4) |
| EARMUFF | Protector puts musical body, loud, in terrible fear (7) |
| AFTER | Following, with a beating heart, in terrible fear |
| EARFUL | Terrible fear gets university student some abuse |
| DREADED | Was in terrible fear of deer Dad sorted it out (7) |
| DEFRAUD | Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull (7) |
| RAFT | Terrible fear being stuck in elevator requires emergency transport (4,4) |
| LIFE | Terrible fear being stuck in elevator requires emergency transport (4,4) |
| FREAK | Terrible fear shown by king, an oddity (5) |
| DREAD | Terrible fear of doctor removing top of head (5) |
| FASTENER | In the grip of a terrible fear, the gun coming closer (8) |
