| SOFTOPTION | Easy choice, when asked what mattress you'd like? (4,6) |
| SAYNOTHING | Don't answer or do, when asked what the much ado is about (3,7) |
| PREFERENCE | First choice when low-value coins secure advert |
| SINKORSWIM | Choice when one is thrown in at the deep end, literally or figuratively (10) |
| SAYCHEESE | Smile when asked what you'd like with your spaghetti? (3,6) |
| BADHAIRDAY | When you'd like to put a bag over your head (3) |
| ANSWEREDCOYLY | What the Brooklyn girl did when asked, "What kind of hair is that?" |
| CANSIR | What you might answer when asked "What's a three-letter synonym for 'tin'?" by a gentleman? |
| SPY | Person who lies when asked 'What do you do for a living?' |
| DEFINE | Give an explanation when asked "What's the meaning of this?" |
| MCCARTHY | Actress Melissa who, when asked what she'd tell her younger self, said "Just follow your heart" |
| NOBRAINER | Toff and Prince, the second I disappeared, making easy choice |
| NOCONTEST | Easy choice read back during trial phase (2,7) |
| CHERRYORCHARD | An easy choice, as pies go? |
| BLUERUN | Easy choice for those going downhill, less happy with country club (4,3) |
| ELECTION | Choice when seconds removed is still a choice (8) |
| ELLE | Woods who asked "What, like it's hard?" in "Legally Blonde" |
| ASIMOV | Whom Vonnegut asked "What does it feel like to know everything?" |
| TOPIC | Subject to choice when king departs (5) |
| INDEXED | Emphatically accepting choice when provided with a list of subjects (7) |
