| BUTTONUP | Keep quiet to reach successful conclusion (6,2) |
| COMETOPASS | Happen to reach successful exam standard? (4,2,4) |
| PRESERVES | Keeps quiet to fresh troops. (9) |
| SHINDIGS | Lively parties in lodgings quiet to begin with (8) |
| CANOODLE | Is dog able, no longer quiet, to be pet? |
| BELCANTO | Meaning beautiful singing a vocal style used in early 19th-century Italian opera characterised by effortless switching from quiet to full volume (3,5) |
| ACHIEVE | To bring to a successful conclusion; attain (7) |
| UNTIL | Up to bringing an assembled unit to a successful conclusion |
| MATE | Successful conclusion to a board meeting (4) |
| END | Bring to a successful conclusion |
| DEAL | Successful conclusion to negotiations |
| DOWNTOEARTH | Simple but successful conclusion to parachute jump |
| GOAL | Try, followed by a successful conclusion (4) |
| ALLIES | A successful conclusion rests with the coalition |
| PAL | After a poor start, a successful conclusion, mate! |
| INATTHEKILL | Present at the successful conclusion of an enterprise |
| ALLAY | To quiet / to calm |
| APPEARS | Seems to be, at first, very quiet to the listeners (7) |
| TURNUP | Bring about a successful conclusion, getting president into shortened trousers (4,2,6) |
| TRUMPS | Bring about a successful conclusion, getting president into shortened trousers (4,2,6) |
