| OVERDRESSES | Is too formal, perhaps, where fashionistas get excited (11) |
| PEDANTIC | Another tip - dance is too formal (8) |
| DRESSY | First years get ready beforehand for formal, perhaps |
| OVERDRESSED | Seed drovers are wearing clothes that are too formal for the occasion! (11) |
| QUARTERDECK | Clubs, perhaps, where naval officers assemble? |
| SAINTHELENA | As in the lane perhaps where Napoleon last walked (5,6) |
| GLITTERBALL | Gala for fashionistas? |
| STIFF | Too formal and proper to turn up in science fiction (5) |
| FOOTBALL | Local lab too formal to hold back game (8) |
| OVERDRESSING | Being too formal about salad cream (12) |
| IMPERSONAL | I left imperial son inside, too formal! (10) |
| PRIM | Too formal |
| ABOVEONESHEAD | Perhaps where hair is being too difficult to comprehend (5,4,4) |
| RAIMENT | Large ray? Sounds like something poetic for the fashionistas perhaps! (7) |
| ONTHEFLOOR | Where to roll laughing with cheap wine, perhaps, where debate is open to all members (2,3,5,2,3,5) |
| OFTHEHOUSE | Where to roll laughing with cheap wine, perhaps, where debate is open to all members (2,3,5,2,3,5) |
| RHINITIS | Streaming passages perhaps where Irish tin is mined (8) |
| MAN | Knight perhaps where Douglas is concerned (3) |
| TREE | Bay, perhaps, where thorough-fare is out of bounds (4) |
| OVERLAP | Drink too much perhaps where meeting takes place |