| UNKNOT | Punk, notwithstanding trousers, to get out of bondage |
| ONPAROLE | Your word is your bond when out of bondage. (2,6) |
| FREE | Out of bondage (4) |
| FLARED | Lairy wheel arches - with trousers to match! (6) |
| SLAVER | Drool over purveyor of bondage (6) |
| SHORTS | Word for trousers to the knee or higher for hiking, outdoor pursuits, school, sports or summer holidays; trunks or underpants; featurettes or other brief films; tots of spirits; or, the bran or pollar |
| ORANGE | ... to find that third part of our tricolour... notwithstanding the Red Hand of Ulster? (6) |
| TREADWHEEL | Bill in short trousers to trail behind means to get fit (10) |
| PANT | A singular pair of trousers to make one short of breath (4) |
| SERFDOM | In the Middle Ages, a state of bondage to a hereditary plot of land and to the landlord's will (7) |
| ONESBEST | “One should never put on ____ trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth” (Ibsen) |
| ALBEIT | Notwithstanding, it's a vestment to fasten up (6) |
| STRIDES | Outfits about to transport free trousers to Oz (7) |
| LACK | Want hems of baggy trousers to be cut |
| SOWE | "The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, ___ get married"--Cyril Connolly |
| IMPATIENT | Keen? I"m to express desire about item of bondage (9) |
| THOUGH | Notwithstanding that the idea is incomplete (6) |
| ELEVEN | The Spanish, notwithstanding, produce a cricket team (6) |
| SHROUD | After-death cover, notwithstanding insurance? (6) |
| SITTER | Notwithstanding one can be painted (6) |
