| LORDSHIP | Place to see square, maybe, taken by joint authority (8) |
| LESSEE | Let's see - square off to the renter (6) |
| HOTELLOBBY | Where conventioneers often congregate (see squares 2 to 7) |
| FLAGSHIP | Most important standards followed by joint (8) |
| UNPICKED | Left, maybe, taken apart |
| FOUNTAIN | Middle of a square, maybe |
| GIVESOUT | American composer, seized by joint pain, breaks down (5,3) |
| SWATTEAM | Bit of power seized by joint US paramilitary force |
| CATCH | Tom maybe taken to church as fellow hooked for matrimony? |
| ARTS | Music and dance maybe taken up by Stradivari at first (4) |
| TILE | Square in a public square, maybe |
| COMEALIVE | Lunch, maybe, taken before one in inlet makes one become animated (4,5) |
| PLUMPIE | Stout, that is, maybe taken at the end of a meal (4,3) |
| DOGLEG | Setter, maybe, taken with cricket side in turn on way? (6) |
| DRIVE | Right to be gripped by joint ambition |
| STATUE | Center of a circle or square, maybe |
| STS | Sides of a square, maybe: Abbr. |
| BET | Maybe taken with wager (3) |
| MADEINMANHATTAN | Produced near Times Square, maybe |
| TAC | Central square, maybe |
