| CAMARADERIE | A dare, a crime - and perhaps a feeling of companionship (11) |
| WHODUNIT | Colloquialism for a detective story about a crime and solution of that crime (8) |
| PERPETRAITOR | Committer of a crime, and a rat to boot? |
| YELLOWADMIRAL | A butterfly (and perhaps a cowardly naval commander?) (6,7) |
| ANT | Model of industry and perhaps a hill-dweller (3) |
| DRESSINGTABLE | Lint and perhaps a belt found in bedroom furniture (8-5) |
| AMICABILITY | If the beginning of companionship were absent, this would still show friendliness (11) |
| READYTOWEAR | Like some clothes we dare a Tory to change into |
| RISKCAPITAL | Dare a big letter to get funds for business |
| NEANDERTHAL | A member of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch and were replaced or assimilated by modern humans between 35,000 and perhaps 24,000 years ago. |
| CHALLENGERS | Wrongly calling hen George initially, I am issuing a dare (11) |
| MEDICINEHAT | He has patients in Spain and, perhaps, Panama City (8,3) |
| XCHROMOSOME | Gift from one's mother, and perhaps from one's father |
| DRAM | First to dare a Derby footballer to take a drink (4) |
| DRAINAGE | Dare a gin be mixed, getting rid of the water? (8) |
| CLUBLAND | Area of companionship (short clue to "unexciting") (8) |
| LONELY | In need of companionship working in large cathedral city (6) |
| PARADE | Father takes a dare, perhaps, to take part in a display |
| DISPARAGE | Dares a pig to resort to rubbish (9) |
| SOCIAL | Fond of companionship (6) |
