| JANE | Doris's musical disaster at start of the year, taking on lead in Evita (8,4) |
| CALAMITY | Doris's musical disaster at start of the year, taking on lead in Evita (8,4) |
| MISTRESSQUICKLY | I get anxious easily taking on lead in Macbeth, the Shakespearean role |
| HIRING | Taking on leads for Heaton's indie band (6) |
| DINNERJACKET | Direct Klein, oddly, at the start of the year to redesign this formal wear |
| EIGHTHOURDAY | Sixty minutes crew switched Doris's period of work (5-4,3) |
| TROJAN | It corrupts data of half the company at start of the year (6) |
| COUNTY | The tally is revealed at the start of the year in one of the shires (6) |
| STUDS | Read of a breeding animal at start of the year (5) |
| ACONITE | The yellow blooms of winter ___ brighten up the garden at the start of the year (7) |
| APRON | *Smock (from the start of the year, I often have a focus on Passover cleaning and prep, far in advance, bits at a time, this month looms in my head long before it arrives) |
| SNAKE | The Chinese community recently celebrated the start of the Year of the ___. (5) |
| BOWWOW | Pet that may be on lead in front -- gosh! (6) |
| PREMOLAR | Maybe one beside canine opposing snatching on lead in malice (8) |
| GUARDDOGS | A drug problem hounds those working on leads in the security business (5,4) |
| EPACT | The moon's age at the start of the year (5) |
| STARCHY | Formal revision of charts at the start of the year (7) |
| FEASTDAY | Lavish meal given to parent at the start of the year by way of a celebration |
| MELON | At start of the week ring the Spanish for fruit (5) |
| SOLVES | Works out change of direction at start of The Ladykillers |
