| LIGHTSHIP | Vessel never far off danger (9) |
| SUBSERVIENT | Secondary sea vessels never tangled with it |
| RIDEITOUT | See off danger as a jockey (4,2,3) |
| TOUCHWOOD | Fire hazard, thus ward off danger (5-4) |
| JEOPARDY | Jeremy peripherally traps wild cat, heading off danger |
| ANARCHY | "Tyranny and __ are never far apart": Bentham |
| SHORE | Wild horse never far from water (5) |
| CLOSERANGE | Such targets are never far away (5-5) |
| POSTMAN | One overworked approaching Christmas, but sack is never far away |
| STEAM | Naughty teams never far from hot water (5) |
| LEVY | Andrea -, author of the novels Fruit of the Lemon and Never Far from Nowhere (4) |
| ANDREALEVY | Author of novels Fruit of the Lemon and Never Far from Nowhere (6,4) |
| PURSE | Never far away, it's the place a mom keeps her wallet, keys and lots of other stuff |
| AFRIKAANS | Tongue and skin far off, a couple added (9) |
| FRANGLAIS | Signal far off in cross-Channel mix-up (9) |
| DISPUTANT | One in a debate far off, without turning up (9) |
| CAFETERIA | Place to eat and drink ice tea, far off (9) |
| TELESCOPE | It may help one to see a far-off way to compress things (9) |
| RAINPROOF | Sheltered from the weather but in far off and poor circumstances (9) |
| EXOPLANET | Expedition leaders on old aircraft have final attempt to see far-off world (9) |
