| ARETREAT | Not what drummers will do in advance (4,1,7) |
| BEAT | Not what drummers will do in advance (4,1,7) |
| PREFABRICATE | Something for the construction workers to do in advance before getting fake (12) |
| MAKEWAY | What road builders do in advance (4,3) |
| SETTHEDATE | What the June bride did in advance? Watch out if you have to do this! (3,3,4) |
| BEATARETREAT | What drummers about to retire do (4,1,7) |
| BIDEONESTIME | What person will do in the waiting room to waste time perhaps? (4,3'1,4) |
| PREPAREACASE | Sounds like something barman will do in work for one of those going away (7,1,4) |
| BEATTIME | What drummers do in Forever Young? (4,4) |
| AREARUGS | What drummers often use for padding under their drum kits |
| BEATS | What drummers keep |
| RHYTHM | What drummers have |
| RHYTHMS | What drummers produce |
| TAPS | What drummer does with feet |
| STARR | What drummer Richard Starkey changed his last name to |
| STATEONESCASE | What lawyer will do in Ireland and England with what hotel workers take (5,3'1,4) |
| LIEINWAIT | What one will do in purgatory presumably to hold one's horses after stay in bed (3,2,4) |
| LATEN | What it will do in N.Y.C. at 1 a.m. (and in L.A., 10 p.m.) |
| PLAYBILLS | Programs for what N.F.L. teams will do in Buffalo |
| RISEAGAIN | What the South will do, in a saying |
