| ATTENDS | Is there at the start and finishes |
| DEPENDS | Is subject to distressing, even perplexing, starts and finishes (7) |
| CALYPSO | Claps, only at the start and end, while playing music from Trinidad |
| ATTEND | Be there at the start and finish (6) |
| SQUALOR | Between the start and the end of October, the Queen's Head in Saul was refurbished, to sort out its grubbiness (7) |
| ENLIVEN | 3Give spirit to blokes missing the start and be nice at first (7) |
| PRINTED | Ran quickly after the start and made quite an impression (7) |
| ANNABEL | She makes an arrest and finishes off police patrol (7) |
| APPENDS | Adds a couple of pages and finishes (7) |
| SHOUTDOWN | "Silence! Silence! Get the better of women at the start and finish" (5,4) |
| CHEKA | Old reactionary took on king, at the start, and the secret police (5) |
| LUNG | A pulmonary member has a lucky start and finishes bowling |
| ETIQUETTE | Rules are anyhow quite alien at the start and finish (9) |
| HEART | Try tenderness at the start, and compassion |
| ROMPED | Gambolled right at the start, and moped about |
| RACEHORSE | What's haring off at the start and careers pell-mell round? (9) |
| WENTBROKE | New network, with an investment of billions, expanded at the start and failed (4,5) |
| RECESS | Alcove of church covered by RE seminars at the start and end (6) |
| CHARLESTON | Powerful man alongside Nick Robinson at the start and end, dancing about? (10) |
| STRAINER | Post used at the start and end of a fence to give it stability (8) |