| QUINTET | Composition for five performers (7) |
| HERBIE | Hancock who was one of the five performers at the Grammys last night who honored the late Quincy Jones, who passed away in November |
| LUSTRUM | Desire drink for five years (7) |
| PROVIDE | Cater for five kiddies with odd breaks (7) |
| PRESLEY | Priscilla _, was married to Elvis for five years (7) |
| PEACOCK | Bird seen around Welwyn Garden City for five months in 2018 (7) |
| KEATING | Ronan, singer/songwriter who judged on The X Factor Australia for five seasons (7) |
| NIGERIA | Where was Goodluck Jonathan the president for five years? (7) |
| PROVOST | An MP for five irregular troops |
| NOTICES | Learners with time for five spots |
| QUINQUE | Latin for "five" |
| MIAHAMM | She was named U.S. Soccer's Female Athlete of the Year for five consecutive years (1994-98): 2 wds. |
| TEESHOT | Possibly use for five iron when refreshment is, they say, ready to drink (3,4) |
| WAYDOWN | Which Elvis Presley single was a UK number one for five weeks in the wake of his death in 1977? (3,4) |
| VIED | Competed for five, that is five hundred (4) |
| WOODWARD | Timber for hospital room for five Equalizers Edward (8) |
| TENNIS | Number for five-a-side? Any number is required for game (6) |
| MERYLSTREEP | The Post actress who won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for Five Came Back: 2 wds. |
| AMAZED | Lost for words in an open, old prison for five hundred (6) |
| PUNCH | From the Sanskrit for "five kinds" because of its supposed original five ingredients of alcohol, fruit juice, spice, sugar and water, a mixed drink often served from a large bowl (5) |
