| RAFFISH | Disreputable but attractive female provided backing during outbreak |
| MEMO | Do give me backing during march (4) |
| DONATE | Give no backing during day (6) |
| CHANTERELLES | Mushrooms the French female provided for singers to eat (12) |
| POKERFACED | Impassive fire controller, female, provided great service |
| FIFTY | Female provided extremely trendy number (5) |
| HORSERADISH | Sauce ingredient, bay perhaps, I'd switched during outbreak |
| EPIDEMIC | Pie medic devoured during outbreak (8) |
| FLAREUP | A bursting into flames during outbreak of violence (5-2) |
| SKOPJE | Capital punishment began during outbreak of jokes (6) |
| SEEDY | Disreputable, but popular with the birds! (5) |
| SHADY | Disreputable, but unlikely to get sunburnt if it is (5) |
| LOVEUNLIMITED | Female trio who provided backing vocals for Barry White (4,9) |
| ENGAGING | English getting on, but attractive (8) |
| DIMPLES | Cheeky but attractive features |
| DIMPLE | Cheeky, but attractive, feature (6) |
| CUTICLE | Skinny but attractive girl, about a hundred pounds (7) |
| DISHY | Girl, nervous but attractive |
| EYECATCHING | Viewer, contagious but attractive (3-8) |
| COMELY | Arrive with lady, disheartened but attractive (6) |
