| CANADADAY | Preserve double bill always for date of national importance |
| DDAY | Signature of US actress possibly required for date of major operation |
| ACLASSACT | Impressive person, girl, appearing in double bill, then tango |
| ROCKETEER | Kind of 11 and film always for poet or Elon Musk (9) |
| RACKETEER | Something needed in court always for criminal (9) |
| ACHIEVERS | A church is restricting always for go-getters (9) |
| TIMELIMIT | Stir a lot of citrus fruit, and appeal for date to finish (4,5) |
| ALBUMLEAF | "Always for You" The ___ |
| UNDERGONE | Experienced, possibly half-baked, wanting $1,000 for date (9) |
| PREPARETO | Get ready for date with 5? (7,2,4,3,4) |
| OBSOLESCE | One dressed in blue, mostly, for date |
| TWENTIETH | Went in formal wear then discarded half for date |
| SATURDAYS | Dates for dates |
| ION | A little matter of national importance! (3) |
| STATEPAPERS | Documents of national importance, say the press (5,6) |
| KEYINDUSTRY | Manufacture of national importance, making locks as well? (3,8) |
| OCANADA | Arranged a coda covering an anthem of national importance (1,6) |
| PLEBISCITE | A direct vote by the electorate of a state, region, etc, on some question of usually national importance |
| REREAD | Theology's double bill for study again |
| FROZENUP | Double bill of animations set in Siberia? (6,2) |