| ACKNOWLEDGED | Granted a recording, about 17 (12) |
| ADVANCED | Promoted a recording about an English church (8) |
| ACTED | Took part in a recording about Lawrence |
| NETHERLANDER | Citizen of a country in northern Europe (about 16,000 sq miles; pop about 17 million) (12) |
| REGISTRATION | Recording about soldier on base stifling resistance (12) |
| INTERMEDIARY | Agent is to bury personal recordings about me |
| DISCONCERT | Upset recording about a sure winner (10) |
| CADDISH | Dishonourable recording about a good-looking person |
| AVOID | Deliberately ignore a short recording about love |
| ALLOTMENT | Word for an act of apportionment; the portion granted; a parcel of a field historically assigned to a tenant cottager to labour for him/herself; or, today, a plot rented to grow one's own flowers, fru |
| PESOS | About 17 of them equal a United States dollar |
| AWALKINTHE | and 6: 'Plain Sailing' (it's a surprise old recording about Disney stowing family away on ship) (1,4,2,3,4) |
| CASED | Looked over, with a view to stealing recording about sea sickness (5) |
| RELIC | Antique recording, about Nineteen Fifty One |
| TAPPED | Local asked for money for recording about Progressive Democrats? (6) |
| DISCERNED | Saw recording about revolutionary lout (9) |
| CURED | Recording about Yorkshire river is preserved (5) |
| CLOSED | Finished recording about to be unsuccessful (6) |
| COD | Mock recording about love (3) |
| COURTED | Went out with recording about winding route (7) |