| SWERVED | Tried to avoid an accident, in a way |
| SWERVE | One way to avoid an accident |
| EMERGENCYSTOP | Sudden car braking to avoid an accident |
| BRAKE | Try to avoid an accident, maybe |
| EEL | A proverbially slippery malacopterygian elver or grig with a mysterious catadromous "down running" migration, perhaps in an attempt to avoid an angler's snig twig (3) |
| BYPASS | A way to avoid an urban area? (2-4) |
| ABORT | To cancel a computer process because of (or to avoid) an error |
| NOSE | "___ goes" (selection method in which people touch a certain body part to avoid an undesirable task) |
| ANTHILL | Many a worker here right to avoid an exciting experience |
| EXTRAVERT | It's more green, in heraldry, to avoid an outgoing character (9) |
| POISONPILL | Tactic used by a company to avoid an unwanted takeover |
| VEERS | Avoids an accident, maybe |
| GOLDENHOUR | Term for a period shortly after an accident in which a casualty must be treated to have a chance of survival (6,4) |
| MAORISIDESTEP | In rugby, the action of running directly at, rather than swerving to avoid, an oncoming tackler (5,9) |
| DODGETHECOLUMN | Miss the post in order to avoid an unpleasant duty (5,3,6) |
| DODGE | Manage to avoid an artful trick |
| GETEVEN | Take revenge to avoid an odd outcome? (3,4) |
| EYESWIDESHUT | Warner Brothers digitally altered this movie to avoid an NC-17 rating |
| ICU | Place to go after a "peekaboo accident," in a joke |
| SLID | Tried to avoid a catcher's tag, in a way |
