| ESCAPES | Ceases struggling, keeps quiet, then bolts. (7) |
| SUBSISTENCEWAGE | Big news: TU ceases struggling for minimum pay |
| CLOCKSUP | Scores a century, then bolts |
| TRIVET | Stand in rear of restaurant, then bolt |
| CELESTIALS | Aged Chinese people cease struggling with tills |
| SHUTTER | Be quiet, then speak of some camera-work (7) |
| INSPECT | Six-footer keeps quiet in survey (7) |
| ASHGILL | Where in Scotland everyone keeps quiet over one bit of gossip (7) |
| BELTSUP | Keeps quiet, as a sensible motorist does (5,2) |
| SPOONER | Tongue-tied man by preference keeps quiet |
| SEDATES | Dignified son keeps quiet |
| THEPROM | Schoolgirl's goal. Distraught mother keeps quiet. (3,4) |
| LIESLOW | Keeps quiet or hidden (4,3) |
| BIGSHOT | Somebody racist keeps quiet! (3,4) |
| SHUTSUP | Keeps quiet about puss hiding in hut (5,2) |
| MUTATES | Keeps quiet about a temperature showing changes |
| APPELLATE | Concerned with second opinion, awfully pale, keeping quiet, then dead (9) |
| PRATTLES | Quiet, then makes a noise and talks nonsense |
| PLIED | Regularly went quiet, then told stories |
| PRESUMED | Supposed to be quiet, then resumed (8) |
