| ENIGMAVARIATIONS | Pictures of friends - one of them could be in game |
| STAMEN | Runners turn up for point-to-point - one of them could be a bit of an early bloomer (6) |
| MESSMATE | Dirty condition of friend one eats with |
| PLAYING | Having to spend about a pound to be in game (7) |
| PALANQUIN | Friend, one of five picking up a final piece of ocean litter |
| MATE | Word, related to "meat" through the idea of eating together or sharing food, for a companion, fellow worker, friend, one of a pair or a spouse (4) |
| NEPALI | North-Eastern friend, one of our neighbours (6) |
| IMAGINES | Thinks how it would be in games one played (8) |
| OARS | Several of them could be used in a row |
| STEPS | Thirty-nine of them could be novel |
| TEMPO | Without them, could be top speed (5) |
| LONER | One doesn't need friends, one needs to be side-splitting |
| PALATE | Two friends, one rejecting maiden over a sense of taste |
| VOCAL | Frank word with them could result in love match (5) |
| BEA | "___ Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends" (one-woman show) |
| MIAMI | Two foreign friends - one's heading off for the city (5) |
| JJ | The Breeze: An Appreciation Of ___ _ _ _ _, album by Eric Clapton & Friends (1-1-4) |
| CALE | The Breeze: An Appreciation Of ___ _ _ _ _, album by Eric Clapton & Friends (1-1-4) |
| CATSEYES | They sit glued to the road - ignoring them could spell doom! ... (4-4) |
| BARBUDA | Against most of one country with local friend, one making for the country (7,3,7) |
