| SMITATE | I and a friend take it in to copy (7) |
| IMITATE | I and a friend take it in to copy (7) |
| REWRITE | Were possibly right to take it in to edit (7) |
| PALAVER | A friend takes Vera out for a long conference (7) |
| CELLINI | Florentine sculptor and goldsmith noted for his autobiography La Vita and pieces including a salt cellar for Francis I and a bronze statue of Perseus (7) |
| LEGALLY | Right way to act as a supporter and a friend (7) |
| CONCEAL | At one time State took it in to keep it quiet (7) |
| DUBARRY | Madame - -; last mistress of Louis XV and a friend of Voltaire (2,5) |
| AGIST | How I make it sag when I take it in to graze (5) |
| MATINEE | Friend takes in the last early performance (7) |
| GEORGIAOKEEFFE | Painter who said "To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time" |
| HOBNOB | To talk informally with a friend takes the biscuit (6) |
| LUCIDITY | I'd take it in to Lucy for clarity (8) |
| PROPITIATORY | It’s in support I and a Conservative assembled for appeasing |
| SHELDUCK | Bird in detention put in to copy a mammal? (8) |
| PALMA | Balearic location where a friend takes mother (5) |
| AIRCRAFTCARRIER | Military weapon developed during World War I and, a century later, possessed by only a handful of countries (8,7) |
| MATERIALLY | How mum, I and a chum benefited from a will? (10) |
| GREENAWAY | Illustrator of "toy books", including Marigold Garden, Mother Goose and Under the Window, who was the daughter of an engraver and a milliner, and a friend of John Ruskin (9) |
| DICK | He's proverbially clever and a friend to Tom and Harry |
