| ENLISTMENT | Otherwise listen to me in the mid-twenties for the state of being recruited |
| RYVITA | Crispbread popular with dieters, launched in the UK in the mid-1920s (6) |
| NAAFI | Acronym, adopted in the 1920s, for the British Armed Forces canteen services provider (5) |
| RENT | Lease about the mid-twenties |
| RANT | Vociferate on early rain by the mid-twenties |
| RAYON | Synthetic silk produced since the mid-1920s (5) |
| UNION | Word, derived from the Latin for "one", for the state of being allied; the act of marriage or wedlock; a brotherhood or guild; or, agreement, concord or harmony in general (5) |
| PRINCIPALSHIP | The main vessel for the state of being in charge of school (13) |
| ANIMATION | Word for the state of being alive; or, the technique of giving life or spirit to still images, models or puppets (9) |
| ONENESS | Word for unity or for the state of being in harmony with something (7) |
| LANDOFNOD | Humorous term for the state of being asleep (4,2,3) |
| TEDIUM | A crook diet with hesitation for the state of being wearisome |
| ICED | Practiced finally for the state of the Christmas cake (4) |
| DESERET | The Mormons' original name for the state of Utah, meaning "honeybee" (7) |
| FOUNDINGFATHERS | Old American friends who first made amends for the state of the nation. (8,7) |
| ECHO | Poem by 24 which begins, 'Come to me in the silence of the night...' (4) |
| HOMESTEAD | Dash to me in the East and we'll find a place to settle down in |
| APOSTLE | Someone to spread the word, a job left to me in the end (7) |
| BUSINESS | From "anxiety, solicitude", a word simply for the state of being fully occupied first, later commerce, dealings, enterprise, industry, professional activity or trading (8) |
| ODDITY | Word for the state of being peculiar or singular; strangeness; a quirky quality or curious characteristic; or, an eccentric person or weird thing (6) |
