| BASKETBALL | Lie in the sun and jingle bell at game (10) |
| RENESS | A break for carols, fun and jingle bells - away from the classroom, office cells or parliamentary spells (6) |
| NOELS | "Silent Night" and "Jingle Bells" |
| BOBBYHELMS | He took "Jingle Bell Rock" to the Top 40 three times |
| ROCK | What Bobby Helms says Jingle Bell does in a 1957 Christmas song? |
| RINGO | Drummer's jingle bell ball (5) |
| DONGBATTLE | Sound of bell at Hastings abbey signifies lively fight -see 29ac (4-4,6) |
| WHEELHOUSE | Where control will lie, in the main? (10) |
| BASILISK | Reptile is back, large one coming in to lie in the sun |
| BASK | Lie in the sun in part of Spain we hear (4) |
| CLEMATIS | Preferring its "head in the sun and feet in the shade", a climbing plant also aptly named traveller's joy for its prevalence along hedgerows, pathways and roadsides (8) |
| DRYOFF | Lie in the sun after a swim? (3,3) |
| CROC | Critter that likes to lie in the sun Prefix with -naut |
| ASK | Request to lie in the sun topless (3) |
| SOLARIUM | Make Lima ours, as a place to lie in the sun ... (8) |
| FRY | Lie in the sun with suntan oil |
| OILED | Odile, well sozzled, prepared to lie in the sun (5) |
| BASQUE | Lie in the sun, speaking European language |
| INSOLVENT | On the rocks, in the sun and air (9) |
| KINGVIDOR | Director of films including Duel in the Sun and The Big Parade |