| QUARTERFINALIST | One of the last eight having two pints with hesitation with female in a catalogue (15) |
| AFFAIR | Fling with female in a gala (6) |
| ROOSTERKOEK | Perch - with hesitation - with chef, announcing special kind of bread (11) |
| TWOBYFOUR | Eight having length of wood (3-2-4) |
| OLDFLAME | 8 having gone out of the romance, she ain't hot anymore (3,5) |
| NASTY | 8 having change of heart, not 1 across (5) |
| ATTORNEYGENERAL | Head barman has a last pint with Doctor Tyrone before going to Mass (8,7) |
| LIAM | The most popular name for boys born in the US in each of the last eight years. (4) |
| STALWART | Adjective meaning "fearless" formed by anagramming the last eight letters of "metal straw" (Theme answer: The fourth and eighth letters of this answer can be changed to form a phrase in this puzzle's |
| QUARANTINE | One having two pints outside home before start of extended period of isolation (10) |
| QUARTER | Have a couple of pints with the queen in part four (7) |
| QUARTET | The four of us have two pints with an alien (7) |
| FAIRYTALE | Single by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl, released in 1987, that has reached the top ten in the last eight years (9) |
| OFNEWYORK | Single by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl, released in 1987, that has reached the top ten in the last eight years (9,2,3,4) |
| STYX | River whose name comes entirely from the last eight letters of the alphabet |
| WESTERNSAMOA | Country which reached the last eight of the 1991 and 1995 Rugby World Cups under its old name (7,5) |
| VIDIT | Four Indians - Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Arjun, and this GM - reached the last eight of the recent FIDE World Cup. (5) |
| QUARTERS | Shares two pints with Queen and son |
| LIST | Is left, at the start, with first place in a catalogue (4) |
| FIJI | Pacific island where the last eight seasons of Survivor have been filmed |
