| BOSSANOVA | Paying attention to the numbers, steps taken by one running the business for a bright star (5,4) |
| REDGIANT | A term for a bright star in a late stage of its life that has consumed the hydrogen in its core (3,5) |
| CHAIRMAN | Main arch redesigned by one running the show (8) |
| WARDANCE | Major steps taken by one of those prior to the Battle of Charleston presumably (3,5) |
| SELFIECONSCIOUS | Paying attention to the portraits in a social media feed? |
| AGENT | Doesn't this one seem like an amiable fellow to do the business for you? (5) |
| MINCER | Short, quick steps taken by one who prepares meat |
| ONTASK | Paying attention to the job at hand |
| RANCOUR | Managed the business for half an hour, with no goodwill (7) |
| CLOWNFISH | Common name for a bright orange reef-dwelling vertebrate living symbiotically with sea anemones (9) |
| KELLYSEYE | Call used in the game of bingo to refer to the number 1 (6,3) |
| SUPERNOVA | A bright star that could prove a sun (9) |
| REGARDING | Paying attention to unhappy Edgar, who has come in to call (9) |
| BLOCKVOTE | Ballot cast by delegate(s), proportional to the number of members nominally represented (5,4) |
| GLAZEOVER | Stop paying attention to Brexiteer, adopting idle resistance (5,4) |
| OBSERVANT | Paying attention to maid after she died |
| INTERESTS | Things that you like paying attention to |
| LISTENING | Paying attention to record, ending with taking out date (9) |
| RINCEWIND | Discworld character described as "the magical equivalent to the number zero" |
| GLEAM | Word for a bright glow such as a sunbeam originally, later for a faint or dim glow; or, a brief manifestation (5) |
