| VOUCHIEST | Let out entertaining cry of pain making first solemn assertion (9) |
| VOW | Solemn assertion |
| OATH | Reluctant to abandon first solemn undertaking (4) |
| LOATH | Reluctant leader's first solemn pronouncement |
| STEVEDORE | Eats out, entertaining surgeon (retired) and docker |
| DEBUTANTE | Woman making first appearance badly taunted about errand boy, initially (9) |
| DEBATABLE | Contentious young woman making first appearance on American board (9) |
| SOUTHSIDE | Antarctic team making first collection by 7Dn (9) |
| CASTINGON | Making first row of stitches in knitting (7,2) |
| AGAMEMNON | Soon to host match, making first Greek hero (9) |
| DEIGN | Lower oneself: dine out entertaining leader of gangsters (5) |
| IMAGINED | Dine out, entertaining three kings in a dream (8) |
| PILLOWTALK | Idiot's caught out entertaining with short story revealing lovers" bedroom conversation (6,4) |
| INDEPENDENCE | Dined out, entertaining writer from 'ere, showing self-reliance |
| PITCHER | Trip out entertaining revolutionary baseball player (7) |
| INDEXING | Dining out entertaining former partner working in the library (8) |
| CARRYONSERGEANT | Making first in a series of films, actor's energy ran out (5,2,8) |
| SWEEP | Brush making first of students cry (5) |
| SCREECH | Shrill cry making first of sportsmen, cold, cheer excitedly (7) |
| DIANE | Dine out, entertaining a girl ... |
