| KITCHENETTE | Place the necktie round end of compact cooking area |
| KITCHENDOOR | Reckon dhoti had been removed in entrance to cooking area (7,4) |
| OPENKITCHEN | Cooking area without walls |
| FORSTARTERS | In the first place, the novices' event is |
| DOWNTHELINE | Where tennis player may place the ball later |
| SMEE | Echoed in the name of Neverland's "oddly genial" boatswain of Captain Hook, a dialect term for a pintail, pochard, wigeon or other related duck of compact streamlined look (4) |
| NOOSE | The necktie in a necktie party |
| ORDOVICIAN | Following just after the Cambrian Period, this period saw the evolution of compact insect-like marine animals called trilobites. |
| CROATIA | This Balkan country, a growing tourism hotspot, is where the necktie was invented (7) |
| CDROMS | Type of compact discs (2-4) |
| TUDOR | Royal English family's kind of compact car, you might say? (5) |
| HITTHEROAD | Start travelling to here having secured rear of compact old trailer (3,3,4) |
| GIGI | Fungi, gigantic, hiding a series of compact chrysanthemums (4) |
| TREATY | Thrown at tyre of compact (6) |
| MINISERIES | Baseball competitions for collectors of compact cars? |
| TIMESTAMP | Lots of compact event recording (9) |
| LITTERS | Young groups set fire to short form of compact (7) |
| HARDLINER | Radical sort of compact with eye makeup (9) |
| GALLEY | The cooking area on board a boat, ship or aircraft (6) |
| ENTENTE | Kind of compact |
