| THECATSWHISKERS | Explosive musical beat, in short endlessly excellent thing (3,4,8) |
| HELLCATS | Fierce women given lines in explosive musical |
| SQUATTERS | Short, endlessly short and unwelcome occupants (9) |
| FINALLY | Endlessly excellent friend at last |
| THEBEGGARSOPERA | Musical beat geographers discovered (3,7,5) |
| SOLIDFOUNDATION | Excellent thing to build on |
| RHYTHM | Related to the Greek meaning "to flow", a vowelless word for a pattern of recurrence, such as musical beat or a regular harmonious sequence of colours, elements or shapes in art (6) |
| BOBBY | Excellent thing, a light shone in a policeman's face? (5-7) |
| HUMDINGER | Smell ginger, initially, in cafe ? an excellent thing (9) |
| NONESUCH | Excellent thing, having service in front of university church |
| CHEESEDOFF | Excellent thing to remove hat in greeting, disgruntled (7,3). |
| KEY | Excellent thing to sing in |
| METRONOME | Mechanical device setting a musical beat (9) |
| DECADENCE | Progressive decline of French musical beat |
| EVITA | Musical beat I verbalise partly, making comeback (5) |
| HEARTRHYTHM | These Dreams band's musical beat? |
| ICTUS | Percussus; struck (by a curse, maybe); or a musical beat |
| TRUMPET | Something musical beat film (7) |
| REPULSE | Disgust about musical beat (7) |
| TEMPO | Occasional worker to ring for musical beat (5) |
