| AMONTILLADO | Drink a day before agitation |
| PREFERMENT | Before agitation for promotion (10) |
| ADAGE | A day before, at a long stretch, heard an old saying (5) |
| EVEREST | Where Hillary was a day before the others? (7) |
| BEFRIEND | Get close to happen a day before completion (8) |
| ADVENT | Coming a day before opening (6) |
| PENFRIEND | Pal writing final enclosure a day before |
| MONKEYSUIT | Formal clothes to get a day before important case |
| ADJUSTMENT | A day before stag night, finally finds accommodation (10) |
| EVES | Times a day before starting early vintage everyone seeks |
| FRICASSEE | Cooking method taking a day before patient consumes odd bits of stew |
| OCTROI | Tax on goods from Romania entering a day before Gandhi Jayanti (6) |
| AFRICA | Country getting current account on a day before the weekend (6) |
| FRIENDS | Wingers fine on the wings a day before goal netted by Liverpool, say (9,7) |
| FEATHERED | Wingers fine on the wings a day before goal netted by Liverpool, say (9,7) |
| TIREE | Which music festival was cancelled in July a day before the event, due to bad weather? (5) |
| TWIST | A cotton or silk thread; a mixed drink; a spiral-shaped barley sugar, breadstick, sliver of lemon zest or ornament in a wineglass stem; a tangle; or, a bend in a road (5) |
| DASH | Smidgen of admixture such as soda in a drink; a sprint; a streak of colour; symbol combined with a dot in Morse code; or, ostentation (4) |
| STRAW | A thin tube with which to imbibe a drink; a strip of puff pastry baked as a snack; or, dried stalks of grain (5) |
| SHERBET | A fizzy drink, a fruit drink |
