| TARANTELLA | Dance with Jack before everyone returns (10) |
| PAAR | The Jack before Johnny |
| ABSENCE | Want Jack before scene develops (7) |
| BALLERINAS | Begin before everyone else, with some hesitation, in a first show with dancers (10) |
| TAROTCARDS | Two Jacks, before Sunday, included books, they're used in fortune-telling (5,5) |
| CINDERELLA | Pantomime character transgressed in speech before everyone turned |
| FALSESTART | The host who tapped the keg before everyone got there was called for a ... |
| LLANELLI | Bad directions, everyone returns to Welsh town |
| LLAMA | Animal everyone returns to mother (5) |
| ELLASRUS | Everyone returns in stupid ruses in Free State village (8) |
| FORESTALL | Anticipate area with trees before everyone (9) |
| INTHELEAD | Mixed tin and helium with heavy metal before everyone else (2,3,4) |
| EARLIEST | Nobleman on site, perhaps, before everyone else (8) |
| EVEREST | It's hard to get up the day before everyone else |
| HANDOVERFIST | Quickly surrender, before everyone else, lacking resistance |
| THRALL | Threat half-made before everyone becomes a slave (6) |
| CURL | Ring leader of creditors before everyone (4) |
| OVERALL | Finished before everyone, generally speaking (7) |
| FIRSTPICK | Player chosen for the team before everyone else: 2 wds. |
| IMPEACH | Level a charge against one politician before everyone individually (7) |
