| LYNCHPIN | Hang picture - the first at home, of person vital to the business (8) |
| LINCHPIN | Person vital to an enterprise |
| IMAGE | Picture the first wizard (5) |
| ONTHENAIL | Where to hang picture without delay (2,3,4) |
| CUMIN | Condiment cook uses mainly at first at home (5) |
| INDUCTS | Installs pipes first at home (7) |
| GARDENER | Bogarde nervelessly tackles character vital to the plot? (8) |
| HATSTAND | On which to hang pictures? (8) |
| ALJOLSON | Star of the first talking picture The Jazz Singer (1927) |
| BORDELLO | Changes doorbell at house of ill repute (8) |
| SCORPION | Picture the star sign having a sting in the tail (8) |
| PORTRAIT | Picture the orientation of a page (8) |
| SEASCAPE | Picture: 'The Headland Beyond the Waters' (8) |
| DISTILLS | The fruit pictures the princess painted makes moonshine (8) |
| HALFTONE | Picture the difference between B and C in America |
| COYEST | The most reluctant to give details to the business, yes, and the first (6) |
| FALKLANDISLANDS | This territory, called Las Malvinas by the Argentinians, proved strategically vital to the Allies and unlucky for WWI Admiral Graf von Spee and the WWII vessel named after him (8,7) |
| TOWN | Have time to go first to the business area |
| RAILS | Steel lines forming train tracks, which one is said to have "gone off" when out of control; batons on which to hang pictures above dados; or, secretive birds in an order that includes the coots and fl |
| SESAME | Upsets Eugene the First at church service over closing quote that could be the seed of something (6) |
