| ROLLCALL | Absentees are unable to give their names in this (4-4) |
| ADAYATTHERACES | One of two Marx Brothers films to give their name to Queen albums |
| ROLL | Absentees are discovered by this kind of call (4) |
| PRESENCE | Fact of being where absentees are not (8) |
| SIGNATORIES | Those that have given their names in writing to a legal document (11) |
| TURNKEYS | Live up to their name in jail (8) |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM | Genus of flowering plants that give their name to the Japanese imperial throne (13) |
| SLAPSTICKS | Noisemaking wooden slats that give their name to a comedy type |
| ENSIGNS | They carry the colours and write their name in three ways (7) |
| DEADHEAT | In horse racing, the official result when two horses are unable to be separated at the finish (4,4) |
| LINESMEN | THEY SIT OUTSIDE THE COURTS TO GIVE THEIR DECISIONS |
| LIONCUBS | Their arrival will give their parents little pride (4,4) |
| BEFRIEND | Get on a first-name basis with, and what's spelled by the first letters of eight first names in this puzzle |
| HELPLESS | Unable to give assistance |
| ALLTHERE | No absentees - and with good reason (3,5) |
| EREMITES | Miser gets absentee's golf gadget for recluses, in a way (8) |
| ATHEISTS | Foxhole absentees, so it's said |
| CANVASSER | Person who tries to persuade another to give their vote (9) |
| FLATRACING | Are jockeys unable to give sparkling performances in it? (4,6) |
| TLC | Short for ?tender loving care", such as what Bianca and Sonia have been trying to give their mother Carol in EastEnders (1,1,1) |
