| TAKEABACKSEAT | Withdraw into a subordinate position |
| BELOW | Feel depressed when in a subordinate position (5) |
| VASSAL | Person or state in a subordinate position to another |
| UNDERONESTHUMB | Dub southern men misguided for being in a subordinate position (5,4,5) |
| SEQUESTER | Withdraw into solitude |
| SECLUDE | Withdraw into solitude |
| SATELLITE | Subordinate position receives a command |
| UNDERHAND | In subordinate position. It's a secret (9) |
| SEQUESTERS | Withdraws into solitude |
| IDIOCY | One firm withdraws into do-it-yourself madness (6) |
| BACKSEAT | Subordinate position for meddling driver (4,4) |
| CONFERENCE | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| CHANGE | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| UNITED | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| NATIONS | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| CLIMATE | Global group (shortly becoming French one) with volatile chemical agent and free connection withdraws into Glasgow this year (6,7,7,6,10) |
| COG | Word for any one of the sprockets of a gear or other toothed wheel, thus for a subordinate who performs a routine or small part in a greater system (3) |
| RELATIVE | ____ pronoun, a word e.g. 'who' that links a subordinate to a main clause (8) |
| VASSALAGE | In a feudal system, a subordinate state (9) |
| SECONDFIDDLE | A subordinate role or position (6,6) |
