| BASICS | A graduate lead singer checks out first principles |
| ALGREENCARDS | "Let's Stay Together" singer checks IDs at the door? |
| ABCS | While it's a bit of an A to Z, it's more to do with a subject's first principles (1,1,1,1) |
| SEED | From the Old English for "sow", a word for a plant ovule; clover/grass grown from such; sown land; a first principle; origin; or, offspring (4) |
| GOBACK | Return to fashion? Expert embraces first principles with a twist (2,4) |
| BAREESSENTIALS | First principles of a nudist (4,10) |
| RUDIMENT | One of the first principles of a subject (8) |
| PRIEST | First principles on time for a man of the cloth |
| PRAM | A child's pushcart from first principles before noon |
| ONTOP | Working to first principles put one in the lead (2,3) |
| METAPHYSIC | System of first principles underlying a philosophical enquiry (10) |
| METAPHYSICS | Encountered a particular science in the nature of first principles |
| RUDIMENTS | First principles of a subject (9) |
| RUDIMENTARY | Army I turned out based on first principles (11) |
| ABC | First principles of a blank cheque (1,1,1) |
| ELEMENT | A first principle as a part of an electric fire (7) |
| CREED | Served on board, ignoring worker's first principles (5) |
| ELEMENTS | First principles of meteorology |
| APRIORI | (Reasoning) from first principles (Latin) (1,6) |
| ANALYTIC | E.C. Turner set up to be resolving into first principles (8) |
