| PLAINDEALING | Being candid and outspoken even before trading (5-7) |
| DEPRECIATE | Time to stockpile drug before trading price leads to fall in value (10) |
| ORDEAL | Test gold before trading |
| SEBI | Markets regulator considering introducing tests for investors before trading risky derivative products.(abbrv) (4) |
| HEARTTOHEART | Candid and intimate (5-2-5) |
| HEDGESPARROW | Winger prevaricates even before disagreement (5,7) |
| FRANKENSTEIN | Candid and terribly intense, he produced a monster (12) |
| DESKCALENDAR | It's dated even before use in the office (4,8) |
| UPFRONT | Being candid, money paid in advance (7) |
| BOWED | What the fiddler did even before being applauded! (5) |
| DADDANCING | Old man's moves, inappropriately candid and gauche at first (3,7) |
| FRANK | Candid and loud, reaching high position (5) |
| RICHARD | - Dawkins, scientist and outspoken atheist (7) |
| ROBESON | Paul ___ , US bass singer and outspoken political activist, d. 1976 (7) |
| VOCAL | First Viennese orchestral choristers are loud and outspoken (5) |
| FRANKLIN | Part of the Auckland council gets nothing back after being candid (8) |
| OUTSPOKEN | Having agreed to come in, suspect set upon being candid (9) |
| NELLIE | Antipodean opera legend, even before Dames Te Kanawa and Sutherland, ... Melba |
| MARCHHARE | He's mad, even before All Fools" Day! (5,4) |
| ALREADY | A lady had come round about even before that (7) |
