| GREEKRESTAURANT | Character in 11 across provides tables for those ordering moussaka (5,10) |
| APPLEPIE | The perfect order, for those ordering dessert (5-3) |
| WAITINGLIST | Serving table for those in line |
| FASTDELIVERIES | Hopes of those ordering online |
| ESSAYIST | Is responsible for the last seven characters in 11 across with one of those bookish types coming fir |
| SAYING | Proverb produced by similar characters in 11 across (6) |
| HEATHROWAIRPORT | Disagreement behind open land for 8 across provides space for grounded types in British capital (8,7 |
| INSURANCEPOLICY | Most of 22 across and 26 across provides security for The House (9,6) |
| HIGHEREDUCATION | 8 across provides work for 25 across on the course to The Enlightenment (6,9) |
| ISSUEACHALLENGE | Most of those in 21 down answer almost all of those in 11 across with offer to invest in Donnybrook perhaps (5,1,9) |
| SCOTT | Characters in 11 make footballer (5,6) |
| GOLDENHANDSHAKE | Parting gift from 26 across and most of those in 11 across (6,9) |
| CASHED | Left the tables for the night, with "in" |
| PLATELAYERS | Railwaymen who prepare the tables for a meal? (11) |
| SPEECHTHERAPIST | Helping people to talk to 26 across and one of those in 11 across (6,9) |
| SEATS | Chairs arranged at Christmas dinner tables for guests and family, spots reserved at the pantomimes we're all excited to see or even Santa's jolly knees, all basically places to perch, waiting for thee |
| ALMANAC | It's full of tables for reading |
| DUELLISTS | Expected large tables for pair facing each other? |
| ATLAS | A volume of illustrated tables for a mythological sky supporter |
| MERIT | Tables for Hertfordshire and Middlesex rugby teams (5) |
