| ILLTIMED | Like the invitation that came when you had flu? |
| TRITE | Like the invitation line "Be there or be square" |
| LLANELLI | Welsh rugby club whose high point came when they defeated the All Blacks in 1972 (8) |
| CALLIOPE | Invitation that is about work inspires poets (8) |
| COMELIER | More attractive invitation - that is received by both sides (8) |
| COMECOME | Repeated invitation that I cannot accept! |
| COMEDOWN | The invitation from the south is a humiliation (4-4) |
| DREADFUL | Doctor that produces bill before treatment of flu? That's terrible |
| COMEHERE | Stick together, including me in the invitation (4,4) |
| NATHALIE | _ Emmanuel, actress who starred in The Invitation and Megalopolis (8) |
| COMEBACK | Answer the invitation to return (4,4) |
| FURLOUGH | Awfully rough with flu? Leave of absence required (8) |
| TRUSTFUL | Strut about with flu? Impossibly inclined to believe! (8) |
| FAITHFUL | One is overwhelmed by convulsion, and hot - terrible flu? Spot on |
| SETADATE | Make it possible to send the invitations |
| BABY | "_ _ _ _don't leave me hanging on the line/i knew you when you had no-one to talk to", 1983 (4-4) |
| JANE | "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, don't leave me hanging on the line/i knew you when you had no-one to talk to", 1983 (4-4) |
| STOPA | "I remember when you had a face that could ___ clock" (John Mellencamp line) |
| CATCHOFFGUARD | Is this how you'd get the blue flu? That will come as a surprise! (5,3,5) |
| MANDYMOORE | Singer in a "Mom group" with other celebrity mothers; the drama came when Mom group member Ashley Tisdale described their group as "toxic" in an essay in "The Cut" |
