| XMASTREE | Kiss graduate by second date, say - a seasonal feature (4,4) |
| BABYHOOD | You can tell a graduate by what he wears in infancy (8) |
| SHELFICE | Seasonal feature of Lake Michigan (2 wds.) |
| SNOWBALL | Seasonal feature currently shown in southern dance (8) |
| BAYONET | Graduate by yard altering tone? It's offensively pointed (7) |
| CHARTISTS | What doctoral students read can be given to the best university graduates by old reformers (9) |
| STAKEOUT | Keep a check on location for second date |
| OLDWOMAN | Lodger in The Shoe dated and won over Frenchman on second date (3,5) |
| AROMATIC | Spicy second date gets romantic out north (8) |
| EATALONE | Get stood up at a dinner date, say |
| FRIEDEGG | To start the weekend, sweetheart, a date - say, golf, breakfast? |
| GOESSTAG | Attends without a date, say |
| TRAPPIST | Monk needs smartphone facility during date, say (8) |
| SPARK | Connection on a first date that will probably lead to a second date |
| ONCE | A sensible reply - however curt or coy - to a second date with Dracula? (4,6) |
| BITTEN | A sensible reply - however curt or coy - to a second date with Dracula? (4,6) |
| STEADY | Second date broken by youth leader's girlfriend (6) |
| ASIDES | After a second date, there are whispers (6) |
| DISAPPOINTMENT | Woman finds second date a let-down (14) |
| ONENIGHTSTAN | Guy who never gets a second date? |
