| TANGENTIAL | Just touching brown guy, one calm inside (10) |
| ALFRESCO | Calm inside, forces deployed outside (8) |
| KISSING | Just touching card admitting one on vessel |
| TANGENT | Brown kissing bloke - that's just touching |
| LIGHTPEN | Computer accessory that's making one calm, keeping quiet (5,3) |
| SPIRITLEVEL | Device to make one calm after a ghost appears? |
| VERNAL | Every one calm in the middle of spring (6) |
| NERVE | It's held to keep one calm and never upset (5) |
| MALICE | It may upset one's calm, i.e. |
| DEFUSES | When one calms a situation, one does what to it (7) |
| SNAP | Lose one's calm |
| ONLY | Just touching, leafy borders |
| TOES | Parts of the feet whose reference in a common phrase describing conformity derives from competitors placing said digits just touching the line at the beginning of a race (4) |
| EGOMANIAC | Old guy, one in jail, upset one who's totally self-absorbed (9) |
| GOTO | The ___ guy (one who's dependable in a pinch) |
| PHENOMENA | Soft on that guy, one man doctored certain unusual situations (9) |
| MANICURE | Guy one has to heal, giving attention to extremities (8) |
| PORCELAIN | Reverse of smart guy, one probing obscene material in China |
| MANITOBAN | Guy, one to exclude from Winnipeg's province (9) |
| CATIONIC | Guy, one that's mostly postponed dealing with charged material (8) |
