| BOSSANOVA | Dance with the chief, a star (5,4) |
| EGGHEAD | Urge on the chief, a boffin through and through (7) |
| TIM | The Chief, a former ITV crime series starring ... Pigott-Smith and Martin Shaw, used Norwich, Yarmouth and Gorleston as filming locations (3) |
| PRINCIPAL | From the Latin for "first, chief", a headmaster/mistress; a leading actor, dancer or instrumentalist; or, one of the combatants in a duel (9) |
| BALLERINA | Dance with the queen when Ian is out with a dancer (9) |
| ODDMANOUT | Do Tom and Maud dance with the wallflower? (3,3,3) |
| MORAVIA | With the chief town Brno, the eastern part of the Czech Republic with Silesia (7) |
| STARCHY | Formal with the chief, when in the enclosure (7) |
| ARCH | "Charges" gets off to a bad start with the chief (4) |
| READER | Student out for a run with the chief lecturer (6) |
| SHETLAND | With the chief town Lerwick, an archipelago of more than 100 islands, site of the Mousa broch (8) |
| PREMIER | Before I'm back again. back with the chief (7) |
| STARTOUT | Set off with the chief barker (5,3) |
| REMAIN | Stay again with the chief (6) |
| CALABRIA | Region of south-west Italy with the chief town Reggio (8) |
| OTAGO | New Zealand district with the chief town Dunedin (5) |
| NOHOPER | A feckless individual with number to dance with the Queen (2-5) |
| PONTIAC | Famed 18th-century Ottawa chief, a great leader of inter-tribal resistance against British rule in the Great Lakes area (7) |
| EVER | "You ___ dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" |
| REBEL | Bandleader in a dance with the dissenter (5) |
