| VACILLATED | Was irresolute, being abandoned and sick at heart (10) |
| DELAYED | Amateur going into action was irresolute |
| CHILLINESS | Cold and sick at home, game is outside |
| FRIENDLESS | Disheartened suitor ends life, abandoned and alone (10) |
| ENDANGERED | Points to deranged characters abandoned and in jeopardy |
| LEFTBEHIND | Abandoned, and a description of one of this puzzle's circled words |
| STEPPARENT | One raising strange issue of test paper being abandoned about middle of examination |
| BOTTLEBANK | Rely on nerve in place of vessels being abandoned? (6,4) |
| WISHYWASHY | Why was I shy, awkward and irresolute? (5-5) |
| OPTIC | Viewer's plump and sick at heart |
| LETHARGIC | Sluggish husband getting into scrape left upset and sick at heart (9) |
| HILLS | They're proverbially old, and sick at heart (5) |
| VACILLATE | Be hesitant, empty and sick at heart (9) |
| IMPOLITIC | Indiscreet, interminably rude and sick at heart |
| BRASSIC | Skint and sick at heart after audacity (7) |
| DJOKOVIC | Rival of 19Ac record player all right, half over and sick at heart (8) |
| FIDDICH | If returning extremely disappointed and sick at heart before end of match, 32Dn after 31Dn (7) |
| INDEFINITE | Irresolute, vacillating (10) |
| INDECISIVE | Vacillating, irresolute (10) |
| INTWOMINDS | Thought of by the couple as irresolute (2,3,5) |
