| TAUTEST | Under most stress, and kind of cross before ordeal |
| GREATEST | Description of Muhammad Ali's rage erupting before ordeal (8) |
| ATTEST | Corroborate northward movement of soldiers before ordeal |
| SOFTEN | Figure found under most of seat cushion (6) |
| SATURNINE | Gloomy number under most of planet (9) |
| DOORTODOOR | Turning cross before turning cross at each house in turn (4-2-4) |
| EXERGUE | Space on medal, back of George Cross, before being filled with endless resin |
| MIDLIFECRISIS | Feelings of stress and anxiety between youth and old age (7,6) |
| STANDREWS | Litter's about and makes one kind of cross |
| PORTMANTEAU | Left chap kind of cross about English classification of the across solutions? (11) |
| CRUST | Bit of toast, perhaps, cold and kind of red? (5) |
| PATRICK | EastEnder who briefly dated Cora Cross before deciding he wanted her out of the B&B (7,7) |
| ATBEST | Under most favourable circumstances, second grade in an exam |
| LOLLIPOPMAN | Chap who makes kids properly cross before school? (8,3) |
| PROSODY | The study of versification; or, intonation, rhythm, stress and other suprasegmental properties of speech in linguistics (7) |
| ULCER | Result of stress and worry |
| ATONIC | Said with no stress and a elixir by the look of it (6) |
| CAREWORN | Showing signs of stress and worry (8) |
| REACHING | Getting at heart of stress and suffering (8) |
| MALTESE | Man having to admit set-up is kind of cross (7) |
