| TRIUMVIRATE | Cut securing debutant's fourth six? Score is three, officially (11) |
| VITALLY | Six score in a way that is essential (7) |
| AKITAKEESHONDCOLLIE | Three officially recognized dog breeds |
| DENMARK | Study exam? Score Hamlet's home (7) |
| OUTSET | Dismissed? Score at start? (6) |
| ACCESSORIES | Accomplices in case? Scores I suspect (11) |
| TROMPELOEIL | Painting that tricks the viewer into believing it is three-dimensional (6,5) |
| EROTIC | For rousing passion, unfinished symphony by Beethoven eclipses his fourth (6) |
| DECREE | Order received changes, ignoring the fourth (6) |
| PROMPT | Cue for performer in concert with piano - Beethoven's Fourth (6) |
| SOS | In Morse code, what is three dots, three dashes, three dots? (1,1,1) |
| PARTHIV | Youngest Test debutants for India: 1. Sachin, 2. Piyush, 3. Sivaramakrishnan, 4. ? (7) |
| AUSTRIA | Debutants in an undisciplined side taunted refs in another country (7) |
| HAITI | CONCACAF nation; 1974 World Cup debutants (5) |
| ZAIRE | CAF nation (former name); 1974 FIFA World Cup debutants (5) |
| ATTEND | Wait on distraught debutants missing bus (6) |
| TOGO | CAP nation; 2006 Fifa World Cup debutants (4) |
| CAPE | FIFA World Cup debutants in 2026; 2013 and 2023 AFCON quarterfinalists (4,5) |
| VERDE | FIFA World Cup debutants in 2026; 2013 and 2023 AFCON quarterfinalists (4,5) |
| TOYSTORY | ___ 5, animated 2026 film in which debutants include Lilypad and Smarty Pants (3,5) |
