| SELFMADE | Fed meals prepared and achieved success by own efforts (4-4) |
| CARVEOUT | Develop (eg, a career) by one's own efforts |
| SELFHELP | The use of one's own efforts to achieve |
| FASTFOOD | Meal prepared quickly for head of organisation during riotous staff do (4,4) |
| FEARLESS | Peer consumed by own daring |
| HITHERTO | Musical success by star covering tango up to now (8) |
| KAYLEIGH | The biggest chart success by Marillion (8) |
| HATTRICK | Notable success by conjuror producing rabbit |
| GERSHWIN | Quiet success by German, the composer |
| GLADSOME | Happy dog - meal's prepared |
| SELFMADEMAN | Person achieving wealth by their own efforts (4-4,3) |
| SINKORSWIM | To fail or succeed by one's own efforts (4,2,4) |
| SOLO | Thus see by one's own efforts (4) |
| SINK | ____ or swim, expression meaning 'fail or succeed by one's own efforts' (4) |
| SCORED | Arranged the music and achieved a success (6) |
| MADEADVANCES | Gave loans and achieved progress (4,8) |
| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, companion, comrade or crony; anglers' groundbait of chopped fish; a keta salmon; or, a former name of meaty meals prepared by Pedigree for pet pooches (4) |
| FRIENDLYFIRE | Find flyer trembling with rage in accidental shooting by own army (8,4) |
| ONONES | and 20dn, Poor love nobody has fed meal |
| EARN | To gain by one's own effort (4) |
