| LOSEGROUND | Retreat or fall behind (4,6) |
| KEEPUP | Don't let fall or fall behind (4,2) |
| LAG | Hang back or fall behind in movement, progress (3) |
| LAGS | Isn't up to date or falls behind say |
| LAMEDUCK | One that is weak or falls behind (4,4) |
| GIVEGROUND | Retreat, or lose the advantage (4,6) |
| TIMECHANGE | "Spring back" or "fall ahead" event |
| ACTIONVERB | Spring or fall, e.g. |
| CONCUSSION | Head injury, caused by a blow or fall, usually resulting in loss of consciousness (10) |
| FALLINLOVE | What young man may do in spring or autumn with current novel's revision (4,2,4) |
| HIDEOUT | Retreat, or a place to retreat |
| ADVANCE | Real or metaphorical progress; an antonym of retreat or regression (7) |
| EBB | In contrast with "flow", a word for the falling back, going out, retreat or wane of the tide, thus any decrease, gradual decline or low state (3) |
| TOSSPOTS | Arrests drunkard in retreat - or drunkards |
| ATBAY | Unable to retreat or escape |
| BACKUP | Retreat... or support (4,2) |
| KEEP | Spy in retreat or castle (4) |
| TREE | Word linking with "house" to form the name of a structure built in boughs as a lookout, a play area for children, occasional retreat or workspace (4) |
| ASHRAM | A religious retreat or community where a Hindu holy man lives (6) |
| BROWBEAT | A Dickensian word for one's retreat or "sanctum sanctorum" during times of ill-humour (8) |
