| BETROTHED | Engaged in wager or backing the open door. (9) |
| SURROGATE | Stand-in certain to receive title or backing (9) |
| KINGCOBRA | One charmed by music maybe or backing that's jazzy (4,5) |
| BETHOUGHT | Stopped to consider, nonetheless, in wager (9) |
| LOCKSMITH | Tradesman that can open doors without a key? (9) |
| LOCKPICKS | Tools used to open doors without keys (9) |
| SPLITENDS | What open doors and often don't close, shock horror! (5,4) |
| SESAMEOIL | It's crude for Ali Baba to open doors with culinary lubricant from restaurant (6,3) |
| FLUTTER | A polysemous word for a modest wager or bet; a heartbeat; a flap of a wing; a bat of one's eyelashes; a sensation or stir; a group of butterflies or flags; or, a fairy formation (7) |
| JAZZROCK | In lift there's the sound of snoring or backing music |
| INSIDEBET | Certain roulette wager ... or what 16-, 23-, 37- or 56-Across has? |
| FORMLESS | Without shape or backing, left in confusion |
| OVERDUB | Punch in, as a guitar solo or backing vocals |
| ROMP | Or backing politician in frolic (4) |
| BRISKET | Investor's concern in wager leads to a cut in the stock (7) |
| REPRO | Copy of fabric or backing |
| FRO | Front for forwards or backing for back |
| ROCOCO | Ornate architecture style or backing Ms Chanel (6) |
| SUBZERO | Freezing zone vacated following payment or backing (7) |
| EMBARGOING | Banning or backing me visiting pubs? |
