| COMMONERS | Plain folk, those arriving around beginning of week (9) |
| FORCEDLANDING | Men in boats arriving around the appropriate day? It might be something of a come-down, I fear (6,7) |
| BIGWIGS | Powerful folk, those crowning, inter alia, Charles II and Louis XIV (7) |
| INLAWS | Relatives slain brutally around beginning of week |
| AQUARIAN | One of those arriving early in the year for drink and atmosphere around first night (8) |
| TAPAS | Starters for those arriving peckish at Seville? |
| FIRSTCOMERS | Those arriving earliest |
| WEDNESDAY | When Dac might appear seedy and sozzled after beginning of week (9) |
| SPYMASTER | Spot 23 around beginning of May ? that's "M" (9) |
| SCIMITARS | Weapons crisis at manoeuvres around beginning of month (9) |
| KNOWLEDGE | Weeklong chaos around beginning of December brings wisdom (9) |
| STOPWATCH | Roadwork at around beginning of winter, about to get top heating device (9) |
| SAMARITAN | Volunteer who helps arch-enemy around beginning of March? (9) |
| POLICEMAN | Copper made from pecan oil around beginning of May (9) |
| NIGHTWEAR | Taking kinky thing at first, we start to romp around beginning of afternoon in pyjamas, for example (9) |
| NOISELESS | Unable to pick up scent, maybe, around beginning of investigation, so quiet |
| LANDOFNOD | Light food's cooked around beginning of night's sleep (4,2,3) |
| DUODECIMO | Book Italian cathedral displayed around beginning of last month |
| LASTDITCH | The French suture around beginning of duodenum in eleventh hour (4,5) |
| NEWYORKER | New England employee around beginning of year produces metropolitan magazine (3,6) |
