| DECONTAMINATE | Need to act with main course (13) |
| STAGEFEVER | Does one need to act to be cured of it? (5,5) |
| ENTERTAINMENT | Goin with main characters intent on fun (13) |
| ASHOTINTHEARM | Boost for heart with main host getting treated (1, 4, 2, 3, 3) |
| SIDE | Envisaged getting rid of vegan dish to go with main course (4) |
| SIDEDISH | Took part of his mixed salad with main course? |
| BEHAVE | Eager sort in short around hotel needs to act properly (6) |
| DOAGOODTURN | One taking a driving test needs to act beneficiently (2,1,4,4) |
| DOROTHY | Tornado victim needs to act before hill rears up a€“ extremely hairy (7) |
| DONS | Fellows at university have to act, with new series ... |
| MAJORDOMO | Former PM to act with Missouri official |
| DOC | A professional person has to act with a cool head (3) |
| UNDERPLAY | Give low wages - add pound in, having to act with restraint |
| CARELESSNESS | Failure to act with prudence (12) |
| CAUTION | He's a card, to act with endless union trouble (8) |
| AORTA | A blood vessel beginning to act with central importance (5) |
| DITHER | Be uncertain how to act with herd, it turns out (6) |
| ATTHEREADY | Prepared to act with dispatch (2,3,5) |
| IMPACT | One politician to act with cogency (6) |
| DOMINEER | To act with arrogance or tyranny; behave imperiously (8) |
