| RANSACKS | Goes through hurriedly, as during a robbery |
| ATHEIST | One without faith or time during a robbery (7) |
| RIFLE | Search through hurriedly (5) |
| REARITSUGLYHEAD | Make unwelcome appearance hurriedly, as gatecrashing (4,3,4,4) |
| CRAMMED | Studied intensively and hurriedly as before an impending examination. (7) |
| KNIFED | Barely made a ripple in, as during a dive |
| AVERS | Affirms a fact as during a trial (anagram of versa) |
| UMBRA | Wholly shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, as during a solar eclipse (5) |
| TRYTOREMEMBER | Think hard, as during a test |
| ICEIN | Strand, as during a polar vortex |
| RETREAT | Withdraw, as during a battle |
| TREED | Cornered, as during a fox hunt |
| STOPPAGE | An organised cessation of work, as during a strike (8) |
| ANOINT | Pour oil on, as during a rite |
| SPOT | Protect, as during a gym routine |
| SOLO | By oneself as during a trip |
| REELIN | Catch, as during a fishing trip |
| PINCH | A tweak; a nip of cold; a financial squeeze or crunch; a crisis; a robbery; or, a sneesh of salt or other substance, taken between a finger and thumb (5) |
| ENCIERRO | Running of the bulls through the streets of a Spanish town, as during the annual San Fermin festival held at Pamplona in July (8) |
| HANDSPRING | Jump in gym as well as during hot season (10) |
