| INSECURITY | Lack of confidence as result of scrutiny, i.e. being mistreated (10) |
| DISTRUST | Lack of confidence as first reading in homework (8) |
| RESIDES | Lives in dress -- i.e. being slovenly (7) |
| GROOVE | Sense of confidence, as it were |
| IMBIBER | Singer Justin's admission: taking first E, being a drinker (7) |
| BEIJINGESE | Asian citizen I see being mistreated around judge (10) |
| UNDERSTUDY | Stand-in is subject of scrutiny (10) |
| SUREENOUGH | Having sufficient confidence, as you'd expect (4,6) |
| ZEROESINON | Makes the target of scrutiny |
| EPISTLE | Letter of record I let out fol-lowing start of scrutiny (7) |
| OLDWIVESTALE | Myth of former partners et al being mistreated (3,5,4) |
| ABUSED | Made bad use of being mistreated (6) |
| NAUSEATE | Unease at being mistreated leads to revolt (8) |
| TRUSSED | Confidence, as reported, is bound to be restrained (7) |
| ENTRENOUS | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
| ENTRE | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
| NOUS | In confidence, as is said in Calais (5,4) |
| MISTRUST | Lack of confidence in film with evidence of corrosion (8) |
| LOGIC | American soldier involved in initial lack of confidence in branch of philosophy (5) |
| LAPTOP | Object of scrutiny at airport security |
