| ENGRAVE | Impress, say, outside national party |
| NAMEDROP | Try to impress, say, in conversation |
| MANTLE | Cloak a man's worn outside National Theatre (6) |
| SCOREPOINTS | Do things to impress, say |
| ANTHILL | Everyone outside national organisation greeting result of workers' efforts |
| COBOL | Language be, say, very good, some say, outside (5) |
| CRASHGREENLAND | Attend a national party in Nuuk without an invitation? |
| CONGRESS | Nehru's Indian National ... Party |
| LIBYAN | National party - any change could finish it (6) |
| BENNETT | National Party politician, Paula ... (7) |
| ATONAL | National Party dropped in without a key (6) |
| BRASH | Former National Party leader (3,5) |
| DON | Former National Party leader (3,5) |
| NICOLA | National Party politician (see 14 dn) (6,6) |
| WILLIS | National Party politician (see 5 dn) (6,6) |
| NDOLA | National party backing gangster in city of Zambia (5) |
| JUDITH | Former National Party leader - w 66dn (6,7) |
| COLLINS | Former National Party leader - w 58ac (6,7) |
| RANDOM | Aimless national party crushed by force (6) |
| SNOOP | Investigate two failures in the Scottish National Party (5) |
