| PROPERLY | Correctly or in the right manner |
| DECENTLY | In the right manner (8) |
| STRIKES | ___ the right note : speaks or acts in exactly the right manner ? (7) |
| MATRIARCH | Woman dominating in right manner, back in game |
| ARCHWAY | Entrance to church in a right manner (7) |
| DORM | Starts day on right manner in shared bedroom cut short |
| DERAILS | Re-dials correctly, or gets off the line (7) |
| DERAIL | Redial correctly or get off the line |
| WILL | Decide or determine correctly or with certainty (4) |
| SEAL | Decide or determine correctly or with certainty (4) |
| TENUE | Occupation lacking right manner of dress |
| SYNCED | Running together correctly or sharing a common rhythm (6) |
| GOODCALL | "You predicted that correctly" ... or what the ends of 18-, 24-, 48- and 57-Across will yield? |
| PASS | Indication of answering correctly or not at all? (4) |
| NESTS | Flying squirrels build ___ in holes and crevices of trees or in the forks of branches. They glide on the air from tree to tree or from trees to the ground by spreading out the muscle membrane between |
| MIDST | In the ___ of: in the middle of or in the company of? |
| SWIM | A bathe, crawl, dip, paddle etc in a natatorium or in the sea; a bop or motion imitating such a soom; a graceful glide; a state of dizziness; or, the general current/flow of affairs (4) |
| RAIL | Horizontal piece in a sash window; family of birds in which the coot, moorhen and corncrake belong; or, in the plural, a racecourse barrier (4) |
| SEAWEED | A multicellular, marine algae that grows on the seashore, in salt marshes, in brackish water, or in the ocean (7) |
| DITTO | Word which can be represented by a symbol, and can mean 'in or of the month already named', or 'in the same way, similarly' (5) |