| SETSABOUT | Attacks just as one starts (4,5) |
| ELECTRICCHARGE | Exciting attack, just what the battery may need (8,6) |
| ASSAIL | Attack just when put to sea (6) |
| SKELETON | Elk butchered in attack, just bones to be seen (8) |
| DRIVESOFF | Plays the first shot just as one leaves (6,3) |
| NODS | Shows one agrees as one starts falling asleep (4) |
| SPARK | Promising sight as one starts a fire, maybe |
| ONEROUSLY | One starts with difficulty |
| INITIATOR | One starts in Italian state picking up rubbish |
| DRAMATIST | Wee drink at one starts to sustain this writer |
| LUXURIANT | Sumptuous place on the Nile needs nothing altered before one starts to advertise new tenancy (9) |
| AGGRESSOR | One starts fight with Georgia over good brand of petrol to go in Rolls-Royce (9) |
| CHACHACHA | "The Charleston," one starts stuttering, "is a dance" (3-3-3) |
| SLIPPED | Gave to just as one lost one's footing (7) |
| PLEASEONESELF | Make one's little fairy creature happy, just as one likes (6, 7) |
| NATURAL | It may be illegitimate, just as one would expect (7) |
| IDEAL | Just as one would wish |
| ATWILL | Just as one desires (2,4) |
| TURNSUP | Is found, just as one arrives (5,2) |
| CALLSOFF | Cancels just as one shouts "Go!" (5,3) |
