| INADAZE | Out to lunch, so to speak |
| SPACY | Out to lunch, so to speak |
| TANGOED | In a mess, having nothing for starter for lunch, so stepped out |
| COMEALONG | Hurry with business lunch, then go back around end of afternoon |
| MADEREADY | Prepared to be out to lunch before daybreak? (4,5) |
| PROFESSION | Business person so, if out to lunch? (10) |
| DEPARTMENTAL | Of an office, to go out to lunch (12) |
| EGONRONAY | One angry if out to lunch with nothing to eat? |
| LOONYLEFT | Switching on of telly to see politicos out to lunch? |
| MADRASA | Out to lunch with prince close to a selective school |
| MOONSTRUCK | Nearly all nurses available to take crowd out to lunch |
| WACKO | Out to lunch, ace ladies put out cold sandwiches (5) |
| STAB | Go out to lunch to reflect |
| TRANSIENCE | Propensity to pass nectarines, out to lunch (10) |
| SANEST | Least likely to be out to lunch? |
| DINERS | Communists in, out to lunch, like others eat out? (6) |
| LADYOFLEISURE | Always out to lunch as free to be one's own woman (4,2,8) |
| POTTYTRAINING | That'll teach one to go out to lunch with temperature falling! |
| CUCKOO | One calling on the hour to bring one out to lunch |
| INSANE | Out to lunch - it's available in pub close to here |