| SUGGESTION | But for a proposal to follow is open to guessing (10) |
| TURBID | Proposal to follow bend shortly that's muddy (6) |
| PROFFER | Put forward proposal to follow priest (7) |
| PACESETTER | One to follow is quietly expert puzzle maker (10) |
| ESSAYTESTS | They don't lend themselves to guessing |
| LOVERSLANE | Good place for a proposal |
| CHARGEABLE | Cost authorised is open to accusation (10) |
| ONTHEFLOOR | Where to roll laughing with cheap wine, perhaps, where debate is open to all members (2,3,5,2,3,5) |
| OFTHEHOUSE | Where to roll laughing with cheap wine, perhaps, where debate is open to all members (2,3,5,2,3,5) |
| FIRINGLINE | Dismissing sentence where one is open to criticism (6,4) |
| FREEFORALL | The scrap is open to everyone (4-3-3) |
| ABOVEBOARD | Upstairs committee is open to scrutiny (5,5) |
| PUBLICLAND | Land that is open to public |
| BIRTHDAYSUIT | Delivery for father on Fourth of July? Legal action to follow is bound to be very revealing! (8,4) |
| MIDDLEOFTHEROAD | The white line to follow is safe but boring (6,2,3,4) |
| FLAPJACK | Word for a baked bar of oats and syrup in the UK, but for a pancake in the US; an apple-puff; a powder compact; or, in Suffolk, a lapwing (8) |
| WALKER | A Zimmer; or, a similar frame, but for a baby learning to perambulate (6) |
| DIRTIEST | Most obscene tango to follow is tried drunk (8) |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet-like weapon or tool since Anglo-Saxon times, but for a saxophone in jazz or an electric guitar in rock since the 1950s (3) |
| MOTION | Movement or a proposal to a meeting |