| UPTOONESEYES | Very busy, being occupied with personal viewers (2,2,4,4) |
| TIEDUP | Very busy being restrained (4,2) |
| SLEDGEHAMMER | One pretending to be occupied with shelf for big tool (12) |
| IDENTITYCARD | Certainty did improve with personal document |
| STRETCHLIMOS | Time in prison running Milo's vehicles with personal bars and televisions (7,5) |
| GYMNASIUM | Over the century this establishment stopped being only the haunt of boxers and started being occupied by all those obsessed with exercise |
| UNOCCUPIED | Defence group busy being vacant (10) |
| HARDATWORK | Busy being a despot in the office? (4,2,4) |
| ATIT | Busy being a bit platitudinous |
| MANIC | Extremely busy, being in charge |
| BUSTAGUT | Try very hard except being occupied by 6 and university (4,1,3) |
| PASTRAMI | Beef over island being occupied by force |
| ENGROSSED | Purpose stopped by offensive, east being occupied |
| KASHMIR | A region which is currently being occupied by three separate states |
| HAUNTED | Tune had overtones of being occupied by a ghost (7) |
| TAIWAN | Country in danger of being occupied by China (6) |
| DEMISE | ...made miserable being occupied by defeat |
| COLONISED | Stop one's free land eventually being occupied |
| INUSE | Being occupied, as a chair |
| ABDICATE | Give up, at one vacate bed that is being occupied by Tom (8) |
