| SHADOWCABINET | Follow cupboard and front bench |
| PRESS | Cupboard and printing machine (5) |
| CLOSEKNIT | Writing material put back in cupboard and bound together |
| LYNNE | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room (5,4,5) |
| REIDBANKS | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room (5,4,5) |
| PANTRY | From French for "bread", word for a larder-like food cupboard and one that shares its root with "companion", or "a person one eats bread with" (6) |
| WELSHDRESSER | A sideboard with cupboards and shelves above (5,7) |
| SKELETONS | As proverbially found in cupboards and closets (9) |
| SHADOW | Dark shape (on the Opposition front bench?) (6) |
| CABINET | Front bench, or some other furniture (7) |
| PEW | Jerks on Westminster's front bench |
| CABINETMINISTER | Closet cleric on the front bench (7,8) |
| BEGS | Solicits charity from a front bench song |
| SPEW | Expel from school's front bench (4) |
| CABINETMAKING | Joinery manufacturing front bench first (7-6) |
| CABINETWORK | Carpentry making front bench function (11) |
| BEAM | Supporting member from the front bench before noon |
| VIBE | A short quiver from six on the front bench |
| FILINGCABINET | Grating front bench of office furniture (6,7) |
| SIDEBOARD | Long piece of furniture, with drawers, cupboards and shelves (9) |
