| VISAVIS | First lead-free rent-a-car companies side-by-side or face-to-face (3-1-3) |
| OPPOSITE | Work to set things in place, at the end, or face to face (8) |
| ELEVATION | Side or face of a building (9) |
| COLLATERAL | Word meaning "side-by-side"; or, an asset, guarantee, pledge or surety providing secondary security (10) |
| COMPARARE | To set side by side, or get properly ready |
| AUTODEALERSHIPS | I seal up the road's cracks for car companies (4,11) |
| AVIS | ___ Budget Group (parent company of many rental car companies) |
| THEBLOB | Steve McQueen's first lead role was in this '50s horror movie (3,4) |
| RELEASE | Free rent to support soldiers (7) |
| KISSERS | Buttons on bowstrings that are drawn back to archers' lips; slang for mouths or faces; or, humans or gourami who engage in osculation (7) |
| ROADMAP | Rent-a-car offering |
| SINUSES | Air cavities within the bones of the skull or face |
| FRONT | Word for a person's forehead or face originally, later a book's cover, a shirt's dicky, a shop's facade, a seaside promenade or any other forepart (5) |
| AGENCY | After a long time Chevy's first available in NY rent-a-car office? (6) |
| WASHBOWL | A basin or lavabo traditionally on a stand with a ewer and other requisites for bathing one's hands or face (8) |
| JERK | The -, Steve Martin's first lead role in a movie (4) |
| COLLAPSE | Mistake by officer at first leads to downfall (8) |
| INTERFERE | I get free rent and you have to meddle! (9) |
| RELEASED | Free rent embraced by socialist (8) |
| TREEFERN | Free rent? Ground for a plant with fronds! (4,4) |
