| GRIDLOCK | Power lines are secure but things are at standstill (8) |
| KETTLE | Space formed by police where things are at boiling point? |
| INTHEBAG | Where the crisps are secure (2,3,3) |
| SEALANES | Highways, in the main, are secure and mostly easy, even away (3,5) |
| FAILEDTOCLICK | "Then I attempted web developing, but things ___ ..." |
| SAFE | Come back with arsenic and iron that are secure (4) |
| NIGHTS | Dark times ? but things have altered |
| OVERHEAD | Avoid ___ cast beneath power lines! (8) |
| HATCHING | Several fine lines are emerging (8) |
| SUNDRIES | Why washing lines are used for various items? (8) |
| SENTINEL | He watches to see that all ten lines are in the required order (8) |
| STOPPLES | Plugs into power line in between exercises on board ship (8) |
| PENDULUM | Swinging under a power line initially foolish (8) |
| RONDELET | Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical |
| PUPPETRY | Favourite lines are given to the dog in Punch and Judy act |
| SCRIPTED | Like a TV show whose lines are all written in advance |
| MINSTREL | Men stir on line, are about to hear a troubadour (8) |
| SPLITSUP | Separates and suddenly shows an interest, holding power line (6,2) |
| DRYPOINT | An etching needle by which fine lines are drawn to leave an engraving/ burr on a copperplate; or, the print or impression, such as Rembrandt's The Three Crosses, so produced (3-5) |
| TUGOFWAR | Event in which the first over the line are the losers |
