| TWITCHIER | Woman yearning to enter stage, getting more anxious (9) |
| WHOOPINGCOUGH | Woman yearning to welcome love with firm, tight hug that's contagious (8,5) |
| KITCHEN | Child's realm, perhaps, yearning to enter awareness (7) |
| YACHTING | ... young husband to enter stage or another fun activity (8) |
| LEGAL | Allowed actor initially to enter stage left |
| GOONANDON | Talk a lot or enter stage twice! (2,2,3,2) |
| NOSTALGIA | Yearning to work lots again (9) |
| NOSTALGIC | Yearning to unravel ants' logic (9) |
| EXPURGATE | Old priest yearning to employ extremely alert censor (9) |
| HUMDINGER | ... yearning to welcome doctor with one amazing thing (9) |
| CACOETHES | A yearning to do something, usually unwise |
| ITCHYFEET | Work ethic, first sign of Tina Fey yearning to move on (5,4) |
| COMEINTOPLAY | Enter stage right (or left), to get into the action (4,4,4) |
| KEENER | More anxious to take a cut? (6) |
| DRACHMA | Companion in action on stage getting old money (7) |
| TOSCA | Work, at some stage, getting into scale (5) |
| ODIUM | Quietly leaving stage, getting censure (5) |
| OBSCENE | Old boy facing stage getting smutty (7) |
| THINNER | "The ___ the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear": Josh Billings (7) |
| UNEASIER | Each nurse I involved got more anxious (8) |
