| NEEDED | Not everybody eats dinner every day at first, as required (6) |
| PACED | Walked purposefully and came every day, at first |
| PASSUP | Ignore dads, then eat dinner (4,2) |
| ETCETERA | Create bizarre alien at first as well as other things (2,6) |
| BANDLEADER | He conducted blues at first, as well as songs on radio |
| RUSTY | Reliable, though not at first, as out of practice |
| ORIGIN | I ring haphazardly round first, as a beginning (6) |
| TOLEDO | Went first as well going round for sword (6) |
| OREXIN | King at home has duck first as appetiser |
| CASUAL | Relaxed colleague's first as usual ignoring American (6) |
| PUPPET | Favourite little dog comes first as one under another's control (6) |
| EGOIST | Say nothing first as a selfish person (6) |
| EDINBURGHCASTLE | Scottish fortress where a gun is fired every day at 1pm (9,6) |
| METEORITE | More unlikely to welcome alien, it emerges at first, as arrival from outer space (9) |
| TSAR | Top player suffering reverse at first as leading man (4) |
| NASTIER | Neutral at first as row becomes worse (7) |
| MENDELSSOHN | 1910 is a geneticist ignored at first, as is John (11) |
| SPECULATOR | Embezzler succeeded at first as a gambler |
| HOODLUM | Robin looked upon Marian at first as tough |
| JOYCE | Engineer having success at first as novelist |
