| NEXTPAGE | Clothing and home design com-pany (Gap, perhaps) - first to emerge overleaf (4,4) |
| BROWNOUT | Pre-emptive electric com-pany action |
| YOUVEGOTBAIL | Online com-pany that lets you wire money to yourself? |
| CIA | 'The Com-pany' |
| TRIP | Not mind the gap, perhaps |
| CLAPTRAP | Mug, perhaps first to applaud rubbish |
| STARFISH | An astronaut's favourite dish, perhaps, first has to evolve! (8) |
| DIPLOMAT | Perhaps first secretary's graduation certificate, first of three (8) |
| THEOREMS | Rest home design proposed by mathematicians (8) |
| TURNOVER | A triangular typically apple-filled pastry; an old word for a small shawl; a company's gross revenue; or, a front-page article, continued overleaf (4,4) |
| PRIMATES | Monkeys, perhaps, first group to withdraw (8) |
| YARDSALE | Aspiring minimalist's event, perhaps (... first 2 letters + last 2) |
| LISTENER | One hearing it's comparatively silent perhaps first (8) |
| PREADAMITE | One of the first people (perhaps first) to study a parasite (3-7) |
| HORSEWOMAN | Eventer, perhaps, first to withdraw in husky-sounding state |
| OLGA | Russian girl perhaps first to abandon her river (4) |
| DESSERT | Fool perhaps first to swim into strand (7) |
| MARTYR | Feldman perhaps first to recognise sufferer (6) |
| CAPE | Headwear first to emerge - and cloak (4) |
| HERE | Woman's first to emerge in this place (4) |
