| SUPINE | We turn and fret when flat on the back |
| SWEETEN | In the teens, we turn and sugar the pill (7) |
| EWER | A vessel we turn and turn about (4) |
| REFUTERS | They offer contrary evidence and sure fret when shown to be wrong (8) |
| STEW | Fret when drippy folk are in the ascendant |
| CHAFE | Fret when hot in bistro (5) |
| LIKETHECLAPPERS | Fancy the bellringers when flat out? (4,3,8) |
| BEARS | Holds and takes along; carries / large heavy mammals with shaggy fur and very short tails that walk flat on the soles of their feet and eat anything |
| THESTAGE | Whereupon we poor players strut and fret, wrote Shakespeare. (3,5) |
| ENGLISH | "We turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the |
| EVENTS | Matters when flat tyres lose contents (6) |
| STARTLE | Upset when flat earning rent's gutted (7) |
| DEFAULT | Break promise when flat due for repairs. (7) |
| HORIZONTAL | At right angles to vertical when flat |
| SPARETYRE | Disconcerted ratepayers give up a reserve when flat is found (5,4) |
| LIPREAD | "We learned to ____, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other's mouths" (The Handmaid's Tale) |
| PLANTIGRADE | Walking with the feet flat on the ground (of a mammal) (11) |
| VIOL | Wooden musical instrument with strings and frets, popular from the 15th to the 17th century (4) |
| ZUGZWANG | Start zig-zagging around premier university ground and fret about game blockade (8) |
| FIRTREE | Pine and fret - ire results (3,4) |
