| FANCYFREE | Having no commitments or responsibilities (5-4) |
| RURALDEAN | Priest with area responsibilities (5, 4) |
| TIES | Bands, bows, couplings, knots, laces, shackles, strings, tethers or other fastenings; by extension, connections bonding people; or, commitments or duties that restrain or bind (4) |
| OBLIGATIONS | Commitments or statutory promises |
| EVADE | Dave goes East to shirk his responsibilities (5) |
| FREEWHEEL | With no commitments, have inclination to tour west coast |
| FREEAGENT | Release a fellow who has no commitments |
| FREE | Having no commitments |
| LOOPHOLES | Ambiguities and omissions, as in laws, by which one can avoid penalties or responsibilities (9) |
| NEUTRAL | Run late, having no commitment (7) |
| CASUAL | Offhand about injured people with no commitments (6) |
| FREEFALL | Decline a season with no commitments? |
| NOTHINGON | Night gets mixed up in noon, having no clothes or commitments (7,2) |
| EASYTERMS | They could be difficult commitments to meet (4,5) |
| TRUSTIEST | Commitments to curb corrosion by temperature are most reliable (9) |
| LOYALTIES | Why steal oil following commitments? (9) |
| ROYALTIES | Author's money has regal commitments (9) |
| MANIFESTO | Commitments made plain by a band |
| FREELOVE | Nothing for nothing where there's no commitment (4,4) |
| CONTRACTS | Commitments |
