| EXACTED | In the past one played one's part, as commanded (7) |
| PREVAIL | Before getting a profit, in the past, one had to win (7) |
| BASENJI | Graduate nurse in the past, one keeping judge's dog |
| ORDERED | Rode around showing the colour as commanded (7) |
| ACTED | Played one's part in giving the new cat a name (5) |
| TACTILE | Sort of feeling one may play one's part in a hat (7) |
| EXONERATE | In the past, one had to assess whether to let one off the hook (9) |
| DEBATE | In the past, one came out, at the end, to join a discussion (6) |
| ONCE | In the past, one had a key to get in (4) |
| SPATIAL | Move past one, a student of space (7) |
| SANG | Played one's part in opera and squealed (4) |
| OBEYING | Doing as commanded |
| BATISTA | Old dictator to be in one's part-time army (7) |
| EPISODE | Record poem about one's part in serial (7) |
| EXACT | In the past, one had to perform at some stage, to be accurate (5) |
| SUEZ | In the past, one worshipped around African city (4) |
| CONFIRMATION | Verification in the past, one would have got a slap for this (12) |
| EXILE | In the past, one left everything initially, being banished (5) |
| STRICT | In the past, one got close to allow no laxity (6) |
| EXONERATING | Absolving, in the past, one sailor (11) |
