| ACQUAINT | Bill, old-fashioned, is to get up to date |
| PECOS | - Bill (Old West folk hero) |
| OBITUARY | Statistician has lost the bill, old boy! I first give notice of being late (8) |
| ACQUAINTANCE | Contact to get up-to-date with African party going to Spain (12) |
| LONGSHIP | Yearns to get up-to-date boat |
| STATEOFTHE | Recite frequently by heart to get up to date (5,2,3,3) |
| ART | Recite frequently by heart to get up to date (5,2,3,3) |
| MODERN | Repair or mend to get up to date |
| RENEWS | Begins again, about to get up-to-date reports (6) |
| NEWIDEAS | Ways for silly Sadie to get up-to-date notions (3,5) |
| PALM | This provides an opportunity for the natives to get up to date (4,4) |
| TREE | This provides an opportunity for the fruit pickers to get up to date (4,4) |
| SQUAREPEG | Margaret, being old-fashioned, is a misfit |
| STAMINA | Bottom, old-fashioned, is enlivening in turn, missing Thisbe's end |
| ALLSQUARE | Everyone old-fashioned is clear of debt (3,6) |
| IMPASSE | Irish butter, being old fashioned, is a dead end |
| INUNDATED | Popular organisation, though old-fashioned, is swamped |
| ONTHEROCKS | How an old-fashioned is served |
| REACQUAINT | Once again get up to date, scrapping antique car (10) |
| CATCHUP | Get up-to-date sauce (5,2) |
