| PALMSPRINGS | Initially managed well, nursed by friends in US city (4,7) |
| MOKE | Donkey's well - nursed by Avtaar (4) |
| BUDS | Unopened flowers and American beers for close friends in the States (4) |
| MIAMI | Note foreign friend in US city (5) |
| BUDAPEST | Does like time pursuing friend in US city |
| SOPRANO | Work managed well without Norman, perhaps |
| COPED | Managed well enough (5) |
| ANECDOTALLY | Article on city spot put by friend in a narrative form? (11) |
| ESSENTIALLY | Two points garbled in set by friend in a basic way (11) |
| IMPARTIALLY | I'm attracted by role, one adopted by friend in a disinterested way (11) |
| ELEMENTALLY | Lead, perhaps, taken by friend in a basic way (11) |
| INSIDEJOKES | Humour shared by friends (6,5) |
| AMELIORATED | Nursed by girl and boy, fighting men got better |
| JOIEDEVIVRE | Nursed by Joe, I revived somehow, showing ebullience (4,2,5) |
| MAHJONG | Tile game played by friends in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club |
| PALACES | One of the Trumps entertained by friends in big houses (7) |
| OUR | Word followed by Friends In The North gives the title of a 1996 drama series (3) |
| SPIRITOFSTLOUIS | It's solo trip (US-France) it initially managed (6,2,2,5) |
| EPHEMERA | Transient matters that man initially managed in record time |
| TRANSVERSE | 26 initially managed parts before poetry, making us cross |
