| FIELDER | Slip, perhaps, if turning round tree (7) |
| CATCHER | One with claws caught her slip, perhaps (7) |
| PELISSE | See slip perhaps through the clock (7) |
| FIREDON | If turning red, get ahead, albeit shot at (5,2) |
| SKINFUL | Lot of alcohol sunk if turning fifty |
| FINESSE | Subtlety if turning head with energy |
| FLASHED | Went quickly, as ran round tree (7) |
| LASHKAR | Armed Indian tribesmen getting lark to fly round tree (7) |
| RETREAT | Rodent goes round tree, building refuge (7) |
| BONFIRE | Blazing big - somebody's going round tree (7) |
| LASHING | Tying heather round tree (7) |
| CATALPA | Polecat, alpaca etc. going round tree (7) |
| LASHOUT | Yob going round tree to spend a penny or two? |
| VETERAN | Old soldier's vehicle wrapped round tree, after crash |
| TRACERY | Go round tree, seeing pattern of interlacing |
| SALLOWS | Everyone takes pigs round trees (7) |
| ATFIRST | Initially an abstainer going round trees (2,5) |
| FREUDIAN | -------- slip, perhaps revealing an unconscious thought (8) |
| ELDER | Senior slip, perhaps, dropping two (5) |
| UNDERWEAR | Slip perhaps reporting to battle full of energy (9) |
