| CAPPED | Excelled in height to be best in the competition |
| STOPS | Ceases to be best in ship (5) |
| BAHT | Foreign cash allows height to be added to club |
| BELVEDERE | Building on a height to be levered about (9) |
| ALICE | "Three inches is such a wretched height to be" speaker |
| CHERRY | Small stone fruit of which the best in the world is said to be of the Picota variety from Extremadura in western Spain; in spring, trees that bear this fruit colour many parts of Mallorca with pink bl |
| BLINDAUDITIONS | Stage in the competition on "The Voice" when the coaches are sitting in their red chairs facing the |
| ONEBETTER | How the quartet went to beat the trio in the competition? |
| TOURNAMENT | A sports competition in which players who win a match continue to play further matches in the competition until one team or player is left |
| OYSTERS | Bivalve molluscs considered luxury foods, said to be best eaten during months containing the letter "R" when the sea is at its coldest (7) |
| SLOE | Said to be best picked after the first frost for ripeness, a miniature damson-like fruit of the blackthorn, traditionally used for gin, jam or wine (4) |
| CHAMPIONSHIP | The best vessel in the competition? (12) |
| TRAIL | Fall behind in the competition, being right in the end (5) |
| PREDOMINATE | Groom roped in mate to be best man? (11) |
| NEATEST | Cattle, at the end, stop half way to be best kept (7) |
| ANTIBES | It may be best in a French resort (7) |
| SHOWDOG | Prove setter perhaps can be best in class, eventually (4,3) |
| PRESBYTERIAN | Priest who could be best in prayer (12) |
| PRESBYTERIANS | Church members may be best in prayers |
| OUTSUNG | Star in publicised opening to gig excelled in rendering tunes? (7) |
