| HORSERACING | Wandering or searching for sport (5,6) |
| STAR | One you may be dancing with or searching for, on TV |
| RAKER | Tools with which to draw in, gather or scrape up grass, hay, leaves, money or real/figurative muck; or, dissipated roues, found by apparently scouring, scratching or searching through Hell (5) |
| ERROR | Word originally for a wandering or deviation from the right way, later a blunder, mistake or wrongdoing (5) |
| PALMER | Word for a pilgrim from the Holy Land carrying a hand-shaped leaf; or, a hairy hoary caterpillar of wandering or migratory habits (6) |
| SOUL | Word before "sister" or "searching" |
| QUEST | Instance of looking or searching (5) |
| COMBING | Untangling or searching (7) |
| STRAYS | Lost, wandering or abandoned domestic animals; areas of common land; or, atmospherics (6) |
| GADS | Cattle prods; miners' chisels; or, from "companions, vagabonds", acts of wandering or gallivanting about (4) |
| ODYSSEY | Long wandering or quest (7) |
| RESCUED | Secured when wandering or let loose (7) |
| ERRANT | Wandering or in the wrong (6) |
| GAMEHUNTING | Searching for monopoly, for example, while on African reserve? (4,7) |
| LEAFPEEPING | Fall foliage viewing, informally, or successfully searching for hidden words in the starred answers |
| BRAINPICKER | One searching for ideas |
| HOLLYHUNTER | One searching for yuletide greenery? |
| DOWSINGROOD | Cross used in searching for water? |
| TALENTSCOUT | One searching for skilled youngsters (6,5) |
| PROSPECTING | Searching for gold |
