| CLOSECALL | Mean to pay a visit but have a narrow escape (5,4) |
| PHONECALL | Ring and pay a visit - it's a good way to keep in touch |
| NEARTHING | Close enough to object. It was a narrow escape (4,5) |
| DEBITCARD | Society girl of one kind and another finding character with means to pay (5,4) |
| INSOLVENT | Very cheeky, touring without the means to pay |
| CARDSHARP | Dodgy dealer one means to pay punctually |
| CHECKMATE | US means to pay China in defeat (9) |
| COMEROUND | Pay a visit - after persuasion? (4,5) |
| CAMEROUND | Pay a visit after some persuasion? (4,5) |
| SQUEAK | A sound of a mouse or a pan of bubbling, frying colcannon; a rat or snitch; a pipe or whine; a single remark; a narrow escape; a jot; a bare chance; or, a feeble paper/local rag (6) |
| DODGETHEBULLET | What matador will do - move finally on time to have a narrow escape (5,3,6) |
| CLOSESHAVE | As it shuts, have a narrow escape (5,5) |
| CALLOUS | It's insensitive to pay a visit - ring us! (7) |
| RECALLED | Remembered to pay a visit on Reed (8) |
| CALLBY | Rode away from local derby prepared to pay a visit (4,2) |
| CALL | Necessity to pay a visit (4) |
| LETONESHAIRDOWN | Be a disgrace to Barnet, but have a lot of fun |
| EKE | ___ out a win (have a narrow victory) |
| STAB | It's crazy to stand, but have a try (4) |
| NEARMISS | A narrow escape close to a female teacher (4,4) |
