| UNDERTAKING | Making a contract to deal with somebody (11) |
| UNDERTAKES | Contracts to deal with somebody (10) |
| OFFER | One of the essentials in making a contract (5) |
| OUTFACE | Deal with (somebody) confidently (7) |
| TIMEBARGAIN | A contract to buy or sell at a future date (4,7) |
| SHOWPROMISE | Have potential, you reveal, giving a contract to (4,7) |
| HANDINGLOVE | To be in cahoots with somebody, fingers should be warm (4,2,5) |
| BETROTH | Bewildered Bertha to lose a contract to marry (7) |
| FUTURES | A contract to buy or sell something at an agreed price for delivery at a specified time (7) |
| SIGNSUP | Gives a contract to twelve heavenly groups? |
| RELEASE | Let out of a contract to hire again (7) |
| LOOPHOLE | An omission or ambiguity that allows the terms of a contract to be circumvented (8) |
| LOVESME | *"I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who ___ ___" |
| RUNIN | One's approach to a quarrel with somebody? (3-2) |
| FALLOUT | Happen to have a quarrel with somebody (4,3) |
| FACETOFACE | Is in confrontation with somebody in a tete-a-tete? (4,2,4) |
| GOTYE | Australian musician who had a 2011 global hit with Somebody That I Used to Know |
| HARRY | Rom-com character who says "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible" |
| CONVERSE | It is the opposite way to talk with somebody (8) |
| COLLEAGUE | Colonel joins alliance with somebody one works with (9) |
