| PORTALOO | Box to go in entrance essentially for snobs (8) |
| ELITISTS | One in set list changed for snobs |
| INTERNEE | Change in rent seen essentially for one in a confined space? (8) |
| EYESHADE | Consent obtained in Beeb, essentially, for protection from glare (8) |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony ___, English author and civil servant who introduced the pillar box to mainland Britain in 1853 (8) |
| RECREATE | Enact again engineers getting box to contain energy (8) |
| CONJUROR | One who might put woman in box to persuade member of panel |
| DARKNESS | Shade box to block returning Transport Secretary's inauguration (8) |
| INCUBATE | Put into a temperature-controlled box to hatch (8) |
| TELETHON | Big appeal on the box to let hen out (8) |
| UNDERPAY | Don't provide enough support for carpet company, essentially, for final part of revival (8) |
| BRETHREN | British and French human rights extended, essentially, for sect members (8) |
| COMMENCE | Start business collecting money, essentially, for Queen (8) |
| COURTIER | Dispatch rider bags letters essentially for nobleman (8) |
| ICECREAM | A recce planned in time essentially for dessert? (3,5) |
| SCALLION | Name, essentially for a spring onion, but also any one of its milder or younger alliaceous kin, including leek, shallot and Welsh onion, all with tunicated skin (8) |
| GREATTIT | Moving target essentially for kite flyer (5,3) |
| ATTITUDE | Catty with dudes, essentially, for the way they behave |
| NONU | Unacceptable, for snobs? (3-1) |
| STATUS | In South America, you shouldn't have time for snob's preoccupation |