| BACKOFF | To move away in order to avoid a confrantation (4,3) |
| RECOIL | Move away in shock |
| MAKEOFF | Leave hurriedly, especially in order to avoid duty or punishment (4,3) |
| PERIDOT | Beginning to move away from imported reset gemstone (7) |
| ARM | A limb one is said to be prepared to give away in order to convey the extent of one's desires or wishes (3) |
| DODGE | A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ri |
| RETAIN | Is about to train, right away, in order to continue (6) |
| EVANESCES | Fades away in order to save scene (9) |
| ELOPES | Runs away in order to marry |
| CONVENIENCE | Flag of ____ , a foreign one under which a ship is registered in order to avoid certain duties etc (11) |
| SALINGER | The Catcher in the Rye author - Feign illness in order to avoid work (8) |
| FLIT | Informally, a hurried and stealthy departure in order to avoid obligations (4) |
| PLAYFORTIME | Formal piety in order to avoid having to take action (4,3,4) |
| MALINGERER | Someone who pretends to be ill in order to avoid work (10) |
| HIDESBEHIND | Uses as a pretense in order to avoid responsibility |
| CLEOPATRA | Egyptian queen who killed herself by allowing an asp to bite her in order to avoid capture by Octavi |
| TAXHAVEN | Foreign country used as a residence in order to avoid levies at home (3,5) |
| CAUTIOUS | Careful in order to avoid danger (8) |
| SKIRT | Go around in order to avoid |
| DODGETHECOLUMN | Miss the post in order to avoid an unpleasant duty (5,3,6) |
