| BACKBITES | Attacks absent friends, say |
| REUNION | Gathering of long-absent friends |
| ADDED | Became online friends, say |
| DEARONES | Close friends, say |
| THROWAPARTY | Host lots of friends, say |
| SITCOM | Friends say, pose with committee briefly (6) |
| NERDFEST | Solving crosswords with a bunch of friends, say |
| PROGRAMME | Friends, say, in favour of the metric system? |
| NAMEDNAMES | Squealed on your friends, say |
| BEARHUG | Greeting between long-lost friends, say |
| CARPOOLS | Travel arrangements between friends, say |
| TOASTED | Absent Friends may be set wrongly in time by video game (7) |
| TOASTS | Cries of 'Cheers', 'Kampai', 'Absent friends' etc., accompanied by a drink |
| HEALTH | Your - toast similar to 'bottoms up', 'cheers', 'chin-chin', 'salute', 'gesundheit' or 'to absent friends' (6) |
| CHINCHIN | To absent friends from Church in Switzerland and up north (4-4) |
| BRAG | Ballyrag an absent friend and boast (4) |
| FAKEIDS | Some of my friends' say that they're 23, from Peoria, IL, etc. |
| SITUATIONCOMEDY | Friends say Tom indicates you must go out (9,6) |
| ASITCOMES | Friends say water's rising all around in the usual way (2,2,5) |
| GROOMSMAN | One wearing a matching bowtie with his friends, say |
