| PRESENTS | Donations posted in advance by foremost of sponsors (8) |
| PRESENT | Donation posted beforehand (7) |
| IFSANDBUTS | Fund's a bit disturbed about origin of sponsor's objections (3,3,4) |
| FOREWARNED | Apprised in advance by Mcilroy, weren't we, of his Masters victory? (10) |
| VENTURECAPITAL | Amount invested in advance by Paris, say (7,7) |
| BANISTER | Case of Greek wine sent back by foremost of customers (8) |
| BAVARIAN | German camel act replaced by foremost of Austrian ventriloquists, arguably (8) |
| PRESERVE | Keep book by foremost of playwrights (8) |
| ARMAGNAC | Faulty anagram, by foremost of compilers, for French drink |
| CULDESAC | Blind alley, as clued cryptically by foremost of compilers (3-2-3) |
| LEAPFROG | Advance by jumps or stages (8) |
| STOPPARD | Actor/director receives work by foremost among playwrights ___ this one? (8) |
| PASSEDBY | Ignored advance by editor on exchange (6,2) |
| SENTRIES | They are posted: posted, in order to rise (8) |
| SENTINEL | Guard posted in by the Spanish (8) |
| RESENTED | Felt bitter about being posted in plant (8) |
| SENTENCE | A few words posted in French church (8) |
| ENVELOPE | Half of messengers run off what's to be posted in here? |
| ABSENTEE | Posted in an insect ___ is that why he's missing? (8) |
| DISSENTS | Is posted in devious extremes one doesn't agree with (8) |
