| RATTLEBAG | Apparatus making a succession of short hard sounds (9) |
| RATTLING | Making short hard sounds |
| PRATTLE | Go on piano - make short hard sounds |
| RATTLE | Make sharp hard sounds in quick succession (6) |
| ONTHETROT | ... to run up a succession of successes like a horse does without raising a gallop! (2,3,4) |
| APOSTOLIC | Like a succession of ministers? (9) |
| THEDECOYS | '60s backing band who also had a succession of hits without their frontman (9) |
| PUBCRAWLS | Goings to a succession of hotels, drinking (3-6) |
| SWELL | An adept, bigwig, dandy, don or fop; a gentle hillock; a crescendo followed by a diminuendo; or, a succession of oceanic waves (5) |
| POSTHOC | Logical fallacy of assuming that a succession of events has a causal link (4,3) |
| DYNASTY | A succession of hereditary monarchs; or, a sequence of prominent figures from one family (7) |
| LEOI | First of a succession of 13 |
| SERIALKILLER | Author of a succession of dispatches |
| DYNASTIC | Pertaining to a succession of generations of the same family (8) |
| WHISTLESTOP | Like a tour involving brief appearances in a succession of places |
| MELODY | A succession of musical notes forming a distinctive sequence (6) |
| CHEKA | First of a succession of Soviet state security organisations (5) |
| SNIP | Cut with a small quick stroke or a succession of small quick strokes (4) |
| STREAK | An irregular line of contrasting colour, fat in bacon, lightning or mineral powder; or, a succession of luck, whether good or bad (6) |
| TRAIN | Teach a succession of people |
