| KEEPOPENHOUSE | Expression meaning 'to be prepared to entertain visitors at any time' (4,4,5) |
| ANYBODYSGUESS | Impossible to know time lost by arbitrary visitors at funeral? |
| PERCUSSIONIST | Musician inspires scout to be prepared |
| BOYSCOUTS | Youngsters required to be prepared to serve at Oxford? (3,6) |
| THROAT | Stick in one's ___ , expression meaning 'to be difficult to accept' (6) |
| BOMB | To cost a ____, expression meaning 'to be very expensive' (4) |
| ARM | A limb one is said to be prepared to give away in order to convey the extent of one's desires or wishes (3) |
| OBTUSE | To be prepared to incarcerate us is stupid (6) |
| EXIGENT | Pressing for one net to be prepared to include whole team |
| READINESS | People have to be prepared to show this? (9) |
| ACES | Hold all the ___ , expression meaning 'to be in a commanding position' (4) |
| GODOWNASTORM | Informal expression meaning 'to be received with great enthusiasm' (2,4,1,5) |
| HOTCAKES | Sell like ____, expression meaning 'to be bought in vast numbers' (3,5) |
| GOBYTHEBOARD | Expression meaning 'to be ignored or rejected' (2,2,3,5) |
| MAKEANEXHIBITIONOFONESELF | Expression meaning to be embarrassing in public (4,2,10,2,7) |
| TIGHTFISTED | Mean to be prepared to box? (11) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| STRUMPET | Disreputable female prepared to entertain a more disreputable man? |
| EBENEZERSCROOGE | He had spirited visitors at the present time? (8,7) |
| LASERBEAM | High-energy light meal prepared to entertain a European |
