| COPPERBEECH | What the thief hiding in the wood avoided? (6,5) |
| SPINNEY | Agent nine, disguised, is hiding in the wood (7) |
| CARMENSANDIEGO | International thief hiding in either 20-, 26- or 44-Across (Follow her trail by reading all the clues' starts!) |
| DANGERMONEY | What the thief didn't find in the safe? (6,5) |
| REEDWARBLER | Reward rebel in revolt, one hiding in the marshes |
| BACKCHANNEL | Covert means of communication... or what's hiding in the circled letters? |
| WHERESWALDO | Popular children's book series ... whose protagonist is "hiding" in the circled letters |
| STOLE | What the thief took from the lady's wardrobe? (5) |
| INGOT | What the thief did, inversely speaking, to obtain a mass of gold, perhaps (5) |
| TAKINGOFFENCE | Feeling insulted at what the thief is charged with (6,7) |
| TAKEISSUE | Disagree with what the Thief of Time might do |
| CLOSESHAVE | What a well-groomed man might like, something only just avoided? (5,5) |
| NOGO | The kind of areas best avoided? (2-2) |
| CATALYSIS | Icy blast's a wind primarily best avoided ? it will affect your reactions (9) |
| BULLRING | An arena where charges are avoided? |
| TREEOFKNOWLEDGE | Mad golfer keen to wed - a temptation that should have been avoided? |
| RIGHT | Scare France avoided? That's correct (5) |
| RESERVOIR | Stock film boxers perhaps avoided? (9) |
| HURLING | Hard winter sport Charlie avoided? No, Irish sport (7) |
| ESCHEWED | Perhaps Midwest ground that's avoided? (8) |
