| WITHOUTAHITCH | Effortlessly, go off before this old hag covers her head going out first on strike (7,1,5) |
| EGRESS | Black woman loses her head going out |
| TIMEBOMB | The setter usually goes off before this (4-4) |
| GLADLY | Without objection, good woman covers her head (6) |
| SPOILSPORT | What a killjoy to go off before the game! (10) |
| EWERS | Pitchers were out first on stadium (5) |
| DIRE | Bride lost her head, going berserk. Awful (4) |
| STARTINGGUN | One goes off before others go off |
| ADAMDALGLIESH | Detective who first appeared in P D James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face (4,9) |
| RECENTHISTORY | Search list that a web surfer might delete to cover her tracks |
| CAULDRON | Old Scots hag endlessly covers her pot (8) |
| HOMECOMING | Beyonce's concert film on Netflix that covers her 2018 Coachella performance |
| CHAPTERONE | The pa bumped into the old hag early on in the book (7,3) |
| SIA | Singer who frequently covers her face with her hair |
| DRESSSHIRT | Blue material covers her revolutionary clothing three sons do wear (5,5) |
| PDJAMES | Whose first novel was Cover Her Face, in 1962? (1,1,5) |
| KRONUR | Heard old hag going over ancient city for foreign cash |
| AGING | Getting old, like some old hag in good time (5) |
| MINISKIRT | Trim in ski outfit, one that covers her thighs (9) |
| LENINGRAD | City girl covers her back in advance (9) |
