| EPILOGUE | I enter two records before midJanuary with energy at close of play (8) |
| LUCID | Apprentice before midJanuary with detectives easy to understand (5) |
| SNAFU | Disorderly fans before midJanuary cause chaos (5) |
| REDCROSS | Agency providing health services fudged records before commencement of scrutiny (3,5) |
| SPECIALOPS | Write up records before CIA cuts covert force (7,3) |
| EUROPEAN | Possible French wine, finally - pour out one with energy at first (8) |
| ERECTORS | Churchmen with energy at the start: they can lift an organ (8) |
| EVENTIDE | Happening I'd note, arriving at close of day (8) |
| TWILIGHT | Wit gone off leading expert at close of day (8) |
| PREMIERE | Film director's no good absent at close of picture and its opening (8) |
| ILLUMINE | Light up ailing pit about midJanuary (8) |
| DROLLERY | Humour daughter and go around to meet old queen at close of day |
| DIALYSIS | Ring at close of day to find sibling will get medical treatment |
| NOGOAREA | Place which is dangerous to enter (2-2,4) |
| FRIENDLY | Amiable, and at close of day extremely lively |
| DISCLOSE | Mislay record before show |
| POWEROFATTORNEY | Legal authority to forewarn poet possibly at close of play (5,2,8) |
| CURTAINCALL | Short ball dismissing opener, South American caught at close of play (7,4) |
| EMEND | Took me back at close of play to improve things (5) |
| LASTSCENE | The tantrum to end all tantrums, at close of play (4,5) |
