| PANICKED | Lost one's composure in a scary situation |
| PANICS | Loses one's composure in an emergency |
| DONTEATME | Entreaty to a monster in a scary dream |
| AERODYNAMICS | In a scary demo - flight technology faulty |
| DISASTERMOVIE | Tiresome divas cavorting in a scary film? (8,5) |
| EERIE | Strange in a scary way |
| EERILY | In a scary way |
| FOG | Backdrop in a scary-movie scene, often |
| FEAR | Emotion felt in a scary movie, maybe |
| CREEPILY | Percy and Eli troubled in a scary way (8) |
| TEMPE | Republican lost composure in American city (5) |
| ROOMTEMPERATURE | Marsupial, fully grown, retaining composure in comfortable warmth (4,11) |
| SANGFROID | Composure in trying circumstances |
| NIGERIA | I regain composure in the country |
| SPAZOUT | Lose your composure, in junior high-speak |
| POISE | A state of balance in one's composure |
| KEEPA | Maintain one's composure as warder, say, after row during meal left one a little peeved (4,1,5,5,3) |
| STIFFUPPERLIP | Maintain one's composure as warder, say, after row during meal left one a little peeved (4,1,5,5,3) |
| FAZING | Disturbing one's composure |
| UNDONE | Come __: lose one's composure |
