| AGEIST | Head barman gets to open early and is the first to discriminate against those who arrived earlier? (6) |
| MORNINGGLORY | Am close to an honour that open's early and is gone before noon (7,5) |
| STOCKINGFILLER | Small present to open early on Christmas morning (8,6) |
| TONEDEAF | Unable to discriminate between musical notes (4-4) |
| MORNINGGLORIES | Plants with trumpet-shaped flowers which open early in the day and close in the late afternoon |
| ATTORNEYGENERAL | Head barman gets at Tyrone in a heap across the board (8,7) |
| POETICJUSTICE | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, for example, as head barman gets comeuppance (6,7) |
| UNHOOK | Clasp after organisation gets to open in a way (6) |
| ALLEGE | Mysterious legal eagle gets to open with charge (6) |
| BREAKFASTROOM | Its doors are open early for the consumer market |
| ANISEED | Imogen gets to open some bananas, not initially for flavouring (7) |
| SINEAD | Bereaved mother who wants revenge against those who hurt her in Hollyoaks (6,7) |
| NEMESIS | Greek goddess of retribution against those who succumb to hubris (7) |
| COG | "Oh fill me With strength against those who would freeze my Humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal |
| AMERICANRIVER | Which Kangaroo Island town overlooks Pelican Lagoon and is named after the sealers who arrived on the brig Union and, using local timber, built a schooner Independence? (8,5) |
| AGEISTS | People who discriminate against the elderly (7) |
| DREAMER | In the US, someone who arrived in the country illegally as a child, identifies as American, and wants to become legal (7) |
| RHESUS | In Greek mythology, a king of Thrace who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy (6) |
| NEERAJ | Javelin champion who arrived in Switzerland to begin his intensive training camp for the upcoming athletic season. (First name) (6) |
| APIS | From Latin for "bee" and related to Greek for "swarm", the genus of a hive-dwelling melliferous hymenopteran that is able to effectively discriminate between colours of flower petals (4) |