| GOINGTOPIECES | Cracking up on the way out keeping tabs on leaders, kings and queens, for instance (5,2,6) |
| KAISERS | Taking succession of leaders: (kings are inferior); sometimes emperors 'Roman', supposedly! (7) |
| AGITATE | Campaign for a way out, keeping technology (7) |
| EXIST | Be way out keeping score, losing heart (5) |
| SOCIALWORKERS | Thus CIA left job to queens for family assistants (6,7) |
| WINDSOR | - Castle; established by William the Conqueror in the 11th century, family home of British kings and queens for some 950 years since Henry I (7) |
| CARDS | Kings and queens, for example (5) |
| ROYALTY | Kings and queens, for example (7) |
| CHESSMEN | Kings and queens, for example (8) |
| LIFEPEER | Con keeping tabs on parliament’s leader for David Cameron, say |
| STATEMENT | Something to be said for keeping tabs on one's bank balance (9) |
| OBSERVING | Keeping tabs on the former student waiting (9) |
| TOASTERTIMER | One keeping tabs on the best man? |
| STAIRROD | Survey reports by staff keeping tabs on those taking flight (5-3) |
| GEOTROPIC | Going easy on leaders from most hot spots accounting for the ups and downs of plants (9) |
| SURPRISING | Sneaking up on leaders stepping up revolutionary planning for Easter 1916 (10) |
| PACER | One setting the speed will sum up on the way back |
| EGRESS | Trespasser gently turned up on the way out (6) |
| RANTS | Declaims wildly and hurried up on the way back (5) |
| CHESSMAN | A pawn in the mating game in The Queen, for instance (8) |
