| TOSCANINI | Popular twins lying back alongside opera maestro (9) |
| ACELLULAR | Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple (9) |
| RECLINING | Lying back |
| AESOP | Sit back alongside a storyteller (5) |
| ICECAP | I step back alongside cold mountain peak, perhaps? (3,3) |
| PASTRAMI | Meat market: drain running back alongside one (8) |
| TORTURE | Jog back alongside river? It'll hurt! |
| NURTURE | Training time, jog back alongside river (7) |
| DOGGO | Pooches lying back to back, almost, to evade detection (5) |
| ACROBATIC | Killer whale lying back by sea, not large, certainly agile |
| DIGICAM | Girl inhaling smoke lying back, one capturing the image? (7) |
| LENIN | Red Square leftist leader, lying back (5) |
| MALINGER | Lying back in the morning, hang about and feign illness (8) |
| AMALGAMATE | A lovely lying back with a partner come together (10) |
| TIMER | Maybe watch and relax, lying back (5) |
| GLEEFUL | Joyous experience lying back with seabird endlessly crossing (7) |
| SUPINE | Lying back looking lethargic (6) |
| COMMA | Sign to take a breather, lying back in hammock (5) |
| DWEEB | Nerd observing partners between the sheets, lying back (5) |
| RELIEVED | Thankful to take cover, lying back in grass (8) |
