| SOCKITTOME | It follows the hose with volume, but I'm ready for anything (4,2,2,2) |
| CHOSEN | Picked hose with clean ends outside (6) |
| SYPHON | Remove via hose, with "off" |
| WATER | Hose with tear needing repair? (5) |
| ONONESTOES | Ready for anything |
| BLUECHEESE | Conservative: I'm ready for my photo and something to eat (4,6) |
| EMBROIDERY | Fancy work by Verdi more relaxed with volume dropped |
| SEMIQUAVER | Note marquee is ramshackle with volume restricted (10) |
| STRAVINSKY | Composer wants broadcaster to include trains (with volume adjusted) (10) |
| NEXTPLEASE | "I'm ready for another customer!" |
| OCCIDENTAL | Designation for anything belonging to Europe or the New World |
| IGOTRHYTHM | Gershwin number featuring the line: “Who could ask for anything more?” |
| GARGANTUAN | Word, in direct reference to a grotesque gormandising giant imagined by Francois Rabelais, for anything colossal, enormous, humongous, prodigious or vast (10) |
| ALERT | Is ready for anything, if drawing the French in (5) |
| BOARDGAME | Risk perhaps sounding fed up and ready for anything new (5,4) |
| GAME | Is ready for anything at a match (4) |
| ENERGISED | Ready for anything - seeing red when disturbed |
| OMNIA | In ___ paratus (ready for anything) |
| SWANSON | Actress who starred in some 70 films before her role as a faded legend in Sunset Boulevard, the film with the line "I'm ready for my close-up" (7) |
| AVERSION | On top of the volume but be too reserved perhaps? (8) |
