| BARRED | It sounds as if a travelling player was kept out (6) |
| GINGHAM | Travelling player short of nothing in dress material |
| CARSTEREO | Travelling player? |
| CANDID | To be frank, it sounds as if it's been preserved in sugar (6) |
| AROUSE | Sounds as if a quarrel's enough to provoke strong feelings (6) |
| COSSET | Old word for a "cottage-dweller", such as a hand-reared lamb or cade, that has come to mean to featherbed, pamper, pet, indulge, mollycoddle or wait upon as if a veritable maid (6) |
| FASCIA | As if a head carpenter would make a nameboard! (6) |
| HIRSUTE | It sounds as if a girl's outfit is shaggy (7) |
| SCRAWL | Word for cacography, a hurried signature, illegible jottings, sloppy writing or scribble, perhaps as if a spider has crawled across one's page (6) |
| GLORIA | Her funeral was kept a secret from her adoptive son George in EastEnders (6,6) |
| KNIGHT | Her funeral was kept a secret from her adoptive son George in EastEnders (6,6) |
| ALBERT | Consort on which a watch was kept (6) |
| STORED | At being sorted out, was kept in repository (6) |
| PANTRY | Small storeroom, originally a place where bread was kept (6) |
| UTOPIA | The Maputo piano player was in heaven (6) |
| JESTER | Which professional clown was kept by a prince or noble, especially during the Middle Ages (6) |
| SHORED | Horse stumbled day after but was kept from falling (6) |
| TROUPE | The main characters of the film "The Travelling Players," e.g. |
| BRIDGE | Which card game for four players was derived from whist (6) |
| SUM | In addition it sounds as if it's only part of it (3) |
