| ALLAYS | Relieves fear, etc., with a witty sally |
| APHORISM | Is Harpo Marx starting to make a witty sally (8) |
| REASSURINGLY | In a manner to relieve fear and anxiety (12) |
| ALLAY | No runt naturally will relieve fear (5) |
| PURITAN | Educated woman's witty sally about a strait-laced type (7) |
| LINED | Covered the inside surface of a garment, a box, etc. with a layer of usually different material |
| ICED | Description of a bun, cake etc with a sugary glaze; or, of tea, for example, chilled with frozen cubes (4) |
| RAKER | One who scrapes together grass, hay, leaves, straw etc with a comb-like crossbar on a long handle; said implement used; or, a scavenger (5) |
| SLAMS | Shuts a door etc. with a bang (5) |
| BRANDING | Marking a cow, etc, with a hot iron (8) |
| SCYTHES | Tools for cutting grass etc, with a long handle and a curved, sharpened blade (7) |
| VELVET | A closely-woven fabric of silk, cotton, etc., with a thick, short pile on one side |
| CYCLE | Series of songs, miracle plays, poems etc with a central theme; a bike ride; one hertz; or, an organism's sequence of ontogenetic changes (5) |
| ROLLOUT | Flatten pastry, etc., with a pin (4,3) |
| SWAT | Hit hard or crush, fly etc. with a blow |
| BROWSERS | Chrome etc with a lot of rust on Sierras, oddly (8) |
| YOKING | Linking (oxen, horses etc) with a harness |
| CENSOR | Check contents of letter, play etc with a view to deleting passages (6) |
| PIE | Baked dish of fruit, meat, custard etc., with a top and base of pastry |
| PLUSH | Rich fabric of silk, cotton etc. with a nap longer and softer than that of velvet (5) |
