| SUNDRESS | Girls' or ladies' summer frock (8) |
| CHARMERS | The smooth talkers or ladies' men among the marchers (8) |
| CAPTAINS | Commanders of ships; senior pilots; head boys/girls; or, leaders of clubs or sports teams (8) |
| ROSEMARY | Two girls or one (8) |
| PREFECTS | Head girls or boys (8) |
| AMOROSO | Italian, Latin or Spanish word for "loving", hence for music to be played tenderly; a male lover or ladies' man; or, lovingly aged dark sweet sherry (7) |
| BOUQUETIERES | French word, rooted in "bushes, clumps of trees" and blossoming or stemming from "posies, corsages", for female florists, flower girls or flower sellers; or, garnishing garlands or jardinieres of fres |
| SHOW | "Girls," "Gilmore Girls," or "The Golden Girls" |
| BONNETS | Children's, "grannies'" or ladies' hats to whose shape aquilegia or columbine flowers are likened (7) |
| POLKADOTCOM | Summer frock designer's address on the World Wide Web? |
| TOILE | Fabric for a summer frock |
| UNDRESS | Strip, removing top from summer frock? (7) |
| IDEALS | Models or ladies in fashion (6) |
| BEVY | Group of larks (or ladies!) (4) |
| LOO | Men's or ladies' room in London |
| JOURNAL | Wall Street (or Ladies' Home)___ (7) |
| COMEDY | "Mean Girls" or "Girls Trip" |
| CALZONE | Gents or ladies around Lazio regularly start to eat this? (7) |
| ORANGETIPS | Creamy-white butterflies, or "ladies of the woods", with signature peach-coloured forewings (6-4) |
| WAYWITHWOMEN | One of the paths open to the girls or exclusive to the ladies' man perhaps (3,4,5) |
