| COUNTESSES | Ladies keep a tally of letters, we hear (10) |
| SCORER | Person who keeps a tally of the points gained in a game (6) |
| AVOWAL | Acknowledgement of a certain type of letter, we hear (6) |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| LEHAVRE | Chap upset that ladies keep touching the port |
| SCORE | Keep a tally |
| TAB | Versatile word with meanings including an aerofoil, a bill, a cigarette, a collar insignia, a dose of LSD, a flap, a fob, a loop of a theatrical curtain, the drape itself, musical notation, a pill, a |
| HEADCOUNT | Chief to peer at a tally of people (9) |
| COUNTS | Makes a tally of noblemen overseas (6) |
| SCORESHEET | Tally of samples at a geology competition? |
| MEDDLESOME | Interfering with tally of awards picked up (10) |
| COUNT | Take a tally of |
| ALADAR | Who is regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever" with a tally of seven gold medals in Sabre at six different Olympics? (6) |
| ADDUP | Do a tally of |
| ASCENDER | One who's posted a letter, we hear, or part of a letter |
| NOTCH | Each of a series of a holes on a belt for the tongue of a buckle; or, a V-shaped cut on a tally stick (5) |
| FIFTYSEVEN | Heinz tally of flavors |
| AVOWALS | Opening letter then similar letters, we hear, and statements |
| OWES | Is indebted for circular letters, we hear (4) |
| EYESTRAIN | Discomfort seeing letters, we hear — practise |
