| QUALIFIES | Survives the heat, perhaps, but also weakens |
| HALFWITHERS | If 50% survives the heat, then...? |
| NIPPY | Frosty perhaps, but also very agile! (5) |
| FAHRENHEIT | Rewrote Fear? Hint - it's about that man - the one, to a degree, conscious of the heat perhaps! (10) |
| PERSPIRE | Feel the heat, perhaps |
| ABET | Help avoid the heat, perhaps |
| SWEATER | Top athlete running in the heat, perhaps? (7) |
| WILT | React to the heat, perhaps |
| WEATHERBEATEN | Beware heat perhaps, number tanned by the elements (7-6) |
| KEEPSONESHEAD | Remains cool and survives the guillotine |
| OLIVES | Nothing survives The Greens (6) |
| LASTS | Survives the overseas ways |
| BLASTS | Little Brian survives the explosions (6) |
| SUNYATSEN | This Pekinese was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. It was the companion of Myna Harper and Henry S. Harper, heir to the Harper and Row publishing company. (According to |
| DROOP | React to heat, perhaps |
| RATRACE | Struggle to survive in desert heat, perhaps (3,4) |
| FIREWOOD | Board that's been chopped by wife after heat, perhaps |
| EVENT | Constant temperature and heat, perhaps |
| GRADATION | Good disposal of heat, perhaps, dropping one degree |
| GAS | Good as a source of heat, perhaps (3) |
