| PERCEVAL | Friend embracing top woman very briefly outside church (8) |
| ALFRESCO | English king and James VI, say, both briefly outside (8) |
| MISTRESS | Fancy woman, very French, embraced by mademoiselle (8) |
| NEGLIGEE | What is a woman's very flimsy dressing-gown (8) |
| ESOTERIC | Secret English drunkard, top woman in charge (8) |
| PRIMEVAL | Strait-laced English woman, very old |
| FEMININE | Woman's very good for protecting them at home |
| APPROVAL | Thumbs up for a friend embracing hooker at five o'clock (8) |
| PATERNAL | Friend embracing a bird in fatherly fashion (8) |
| PERSONAL | Intimate friend embracing Charles, Andrew or Edward? (8) |
| KESTEVEN | See Kent when travelling, very briefly entering old part of county (8) |
| VOCALISM | It's uttered very briefly on weird social media, initially (8) |
| STOPOVER | Break journey very briefly in poorest resort |
| YOURXLNC | Address for an ambassador, very briefly? |
| FORMALSA | English composition assignment, very briefly? |
| ESCAPADE | Literary marquis (not duke) embracing top adventure (8) |
| UNAVOWED | Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted (8) |
| TERRACEDHOUSE | Found home accommodating top woman, one in row (8,5) |
| MOGADISHU | Queen perhaps to serve briefly outside a capital city |
| ESSAY | Fool around with looker briefly outside bash? |
