| LETSFLY | We need to scarper from attacks |
| TAKEITONTHELAM | Scarper from adult wearing strangely moth-eaten kilt (4,2,2,3,3) |
| BATTLEZONE | Classic arcade game released by Atari in 1980 in which the goal is to save a tank from attacks by other tanks and missiles |
| LASHESOUT | Oaf protects remains from attacks (6,3) |
| ASSAILS | Blockhead is not well from attacks (7) |
| CHEESEIT | Revolutionary with links to the East turning up has to scarper (6,2) |
| EMPERICKQUTIQUE | From experience of poet's quite quick temper, resolved time to scarper! |
| LEGIT | All right to scarper |
| ABSCOND | Offered a degree, don about to scarper |
| STOAT | Small mammal beginning to scarper? Exactly (5) |
| TURNTAIL | Go round the shadow to scarper (4,4) |
| CAR | Vehicle in which to scarper (3) |
| LEGITIMATE | Permitted to scarper with one companion (10) |
| SKEDADDLE | Start to scarper, fly, go off and leg it |
| CUTANDRUN | Copper Brown and detective manage to scarper (3,3,3) |
| ILLEGITIMATE | Bar sinister means one left ... to scarper with single friend (12) |
| STEROPE | Daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea, who received a lock of Medusa's hair from Heracles to protect her town from attack |
| RISE | Word, from "attack" and "get out of bed, wake", for the upward movement of the Sun, the Moon, a surfacing fish, proving bread, one's body from a chair or a zombie from the dead (4) |
| UNASSAILABLE | Powerless to keep a small boat safe from attack (12) |
| LETFLY | From attack, allowed to run away |