| BARBECUES | Ban bone snooker sticks from open air social occasions |
| INTHEMARKET | Wanted to buy something from open-air stalls? (2,3,6) |
| GARDENPARTIES | Open-air social events (6,7) |
| RAOULDUFY | French Fauvist painter, noted for scenes of open-air social events (5,4) |
| GARDENPARTY | Open-air social event (6,5) |
| ADHERES | Sticks from shed are broken |
| CUES | Signals for the actors, using snooker sticks (4) |
| WANDS | Sticks from two directions (5) |
| RESCUED | Extricated snooker ball, gripping top of 'snooker stick' (7) |
| TWIX | Sticks from Mars |
| BUNDLE | A bound collection of something, such as the fasces, rods or sticks from which the term fascism derives (6) |
| GRISSINI | An ailing Duke of Savoy's crisp and crunchy savoury Piedmontese "pencils", Napoleon's "little sticks" from Turin or just plain Italian breadsticks (8) |
| GAB | Light informal conversation for social occasions |
| PARTIES | A priest organising social occasions (7) |
| BUMBLEBEES | Colonists behave awkwardly on social occasions (10) |
| DINNERPARTIES | Fails to hold secret, separate, social occasions |
| ESCORT | ___ agency, an organisation supplying companionship for hire at social occasions (6) |
| CATERER | One who supplies food, often for social occasions (7) |
| NETWORKER | Someone who develops contacts through social occasions (9) |
| TEADANCES | Acted sane, unusually, at social occasions (3,6) |
