| NOTOUT | "We're ___ of the woods yet" |
| ARE | "___ we out of the woods yet?" |
| ISNT | "He ___ out of the woods, yet ..." (4) |
| OUT | "We're not ___ of the woods yet" |
| POTEEN | Still not out of the woods, yet distilled ? That's the spirit! (6) |
| NECK | __ of the woods |
| HEN | __ of the woods: mushroom type |
| RODENT | Word, from "fly homeward in the evening", for the regular dusk or dawn flight of the "snipe of the woods" (6) |
| BOONE | Subject of "The Columbus of the Woods" |
| DRYROT | Type of humour on The Hill reflects problem in some neck of the woods perhaps (3,3) |
| NAPE | The pandemonium seen back in the neck of the woods? (4) |
| ASH | Tree in the olive family, known as the "Venus of the woods" (3) |
| FUNGI | Kingdom of mycological life that includes the chicken of the woods, elf cups, ink-caps, King Alfred's cakes, penny-buns and puffballs (5) |
| SAVAGE | From "of the woods", a human being in a primitive, uncivilised or wild state; a barbarian or brute; a heraldic representation of a bearded seminaked man in a wreath of leaves; or, an enraged horse/vic |
| GOLFLINKS | Where Woods' woods would help him get out of the woods (4,5) |
| TRUNKS | Tree boles upon which one may observe supposed "seats of the wood nymphs" called dryad's saddles or pheasant back mushrooms; or, boxes or chests, originally made out of the timber of said arborous ste |
| RATEL | Carnivore of the woods distressed in middle of moorland (5) |
| INTO | Preceder of "the Woods" or "the Wild" |
| EMBALM | In the end, wrap up business ? graduate out of the woods? (6) |
| BUSHCRAFT | What it will take to get the President out of the woods? (9) |