| PRIMER | A first coat for Premier who abandoned the East (6) |
| DISRAELI | Statesman who abandoned being a solicitor to become a novelist before serving twice as a UK prime minister (8) |
| SHOWERPROOF | Mad professor who abandoned south once, resistant to downfall |
| EROS | Lover who abandoned Psyche |
| PRIMED | Given a first coat of paint (6) |
| RENDER | Cover with a first coat of plaster (6) |
| STALIN | Premier who represented the Soviet Union at the 1945 Yalta Conference |
| LESTER | ____ B. Pearson, Canadian premier who won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (6) |
| UMBRIA | Here, I hesitate to say, boy has abandoned the North (6) |
| RESIDE | Live there, having abandoned the party (6) |
| DETECT | Discover I've abandoned the investigator (6) |
| THENCE | From there, I abandoned the nice -(6) |
| RABBIT | Teacher has to endure after town he'd abandoned - the buck stops here (4,3,6,4) |
| PLAYER | Paint's first coat, one involved in a game (6) |
| GROUND | Put the first coat of paint on anchor (6) |
| SALAH | Egyptian-born forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Egypt national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is the captain of the Egyptian national team. (6) |
| RENDERING | Giving a performance like a first coat of plaster (9) |
| RENDERED | Plastered with a first coat (8) |
| PRIMING | A first coat of paint (7) |
| RENDERS | Plasters with a first coat (7) |
