| EVIDENT | Clear identification to enter competition (7) |
| RICARDO | Economist needing means of identification to enter port |
| RAPID | Needing identification to enter bar, gets mad (5) |
| CLEANUP | Rest to enter competition to make big bucks (5,2) |
| COUGHUP | Pay almost anything to enter competition (5,2) |
| READILY | Gladly return identification to be enclosed in plastic layer (7) |
| BOWLOUT | Solemn type enters competition to claim a wicket (4,3) |
| RACINE | French dramatist elected to enter competition (6) |
| WILDCARD | Right to enter competition without qualifying |
| OPENSESAME | Special way to enter competition, used by seeds |
| QUALIFIER | Person fulfilling conditions to enter competition |
| CALLUP | Summon everybody to enter competition (4,2) |
| BEADLE | Bumble, aka David Lloyd, first of all to enter competition (6) |
| CUSP | Son enters competition to make point (4) |
| RIDE | You need some proper identification to travel (4) |
| PRESIDENTS | Presents, without identification, to nation leaders |
| DOGTAG | Soldier's identification to follow quotation (3,3) |
| IMPINGEMENT | The writer's identification to obtain without people's intrusion |
| SHORTAGE | Want identification to open beach (8) |
| BENEFITS | Loyal, perhaps, used in criminal identification to get advantages (8) |
