| FRENZY | Wild activity or panic (6) |
| TERROR | Great fear or panic (6) |
| BENDER | Wild activity |
| HOOPLA | Wild activity |
| FROLIC | Wild activity |
| JUNKET | Wild activity |
| ENZYME | Wild activity with setter? Father’s lacking protein |
| ATTACK | Word following heart or panic |
| SPHERE | Another word for a ball, globe or orb; or, a field of activity or interest (6) |
| CENTRE | Middle of a circle; a focal point, hub of activity or meeting place; or, a player position in netball (6) |
| NOETIC | From Greek for "perceive, think", a word for the activity or functioning of the intellect, aka cognition; or, the philosophical exercise of reason (6) |
| EVEJAR | A cryptic churn-owl, dorhawk, fern-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, puckeridge, wheeler or whippoorwill whose name in question reflects its nocturnal activity or twilight churr (6) |
| EARNER | Activity or job generating money (6) |
| CUSTOM | Traditional activity or practice (6) |
| HECTIC | Characterised by activity or haste (6) |
| DOMAIN | Sphere of activity or knowledge (6) |
| BUSTLE | Energetic activity, or a frame that was worn under a skirt (6) |
| TEMPLE | A place of worship; a building regarded as the focus of an activity; or, a cloth-stretcher in a loom (6) |
| SPATES | Bursts of tears, outpourings of words, rushes of activity or torrents of temper, all sudden like flash floods (6) |
| FUNK | Oxford University slang for a state of anxiety or panic; a musty or smoky smell; or, a soulful style of dance music with syncopated basslines and a strong rhythmic groove (4) |
