| GETOFFTHEGROUND | Disembark before the girl's first heat and make a successful start (3,3,3,6) |
| FOOTINTHEDOOR | Aggressive salesman may make a successful start with this (4,2,3,4) |
| PENNYBLACK | Stamp with the girl's first name and surname (5,5) |
| MISSION | The girl first is taken back to the embassy (7) |
| PREMISES | Before the girl gets the key to go into the pub (8) |
| PULLITOFF | Make a successful attempt at proving a beard is false? (4,2,3) |
| ASBESTOS | A call for help secures first heat-resistant substance (8) |
| ANTENNA | Before the girl put back the aerial (7) |
| RECOUP | Engineers make a successful move to get back |
| NEERDOWELL | Black sheep who'll never, in short, make a successful crook (4-2-4) |
| RECOVER | Make a successful comeback as an upholstering firm will do? (7) |
| ZEROHOUR | None of us hold first heat at starting time (4,4) |
| DUENNA | Chaperone expected before the girl turns up (6) |
| GOANNA | Go before the girl with an Australian lizard |
| ANTENNAE | They feel, as before, the girl has got caught up in (8) |
| LOSE | Make a successful getaway from |
| CLINCHTHEDEAL | Make a successful proposal |
| IRE | Conflagration giving off first heat |
| SWARMS | Sun at first heats up bodies of bees (6) |
| AGEGAP | Difference in years, for example, between a girl's first and a chap's last (3,3) |
