| CASTAWAYS | Players with a manner on single people marooned |
| CHIPAWAYAT | Make weaker golf shot with a manner on a tee (4,4,2) |
| ORCHESTRATION | Managing many players with a choice on cabinet allocation (13) |
| FARAWAY | Group of military personnel raised with a manner that's distant (7) |
| EBBAWAY | English pair of bishops with a manner in decline (3,4) |
| THROWAWAY | Cast with a manner that's casual |
| POLITESTAR | A-list actor with A+ manners? |
| MUS | A partnership Basque card game, played among four players with a stripped deck, involving points, dr |
| PACKAPUNCH | Group of rugby players with a drink make a strong impact (4,1,5) |
| STEELBAND | West Indian players with a strong all-rounder (5,4) |
| COFFEEHOUSING | Distracting card players with a drink container (6-7) |
| MILITARYBAND | Brass, woodwind and percussion players with a martial air? (8,4) |
| SEEDS | Ranked players with a core role? (5) |
| CANASTA | Article kept by set of players with a card game (7) |
| SERIOSO | In a grave manner, on sheet music |
| LONELYHEARTS | Single people new in hostelry getting drunk with ale (6,6) |
| DATES | First _, where single people find love on Channel 4 (5) |
| HEARTBREAKHOUSE | George Bernard Shaw play subtitled A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (10,5) |
| NINES | Trick-taking card game for thee players with a low score objective (5) |
| OMBRE | Card game for three players with a name derived from the Spanish for 'man' (5) |
