| INTERNED | Prior to the start of denials, the Web detailed what Lewinsky did in the White House (8) |
| NOISES | Is at the centre of denials of annoying sounds (6) |
| OCTAVIAN | Familiar name of Augustus, first emperor of Rome, prior to the start of his reign in 27 BC (8) |
| SURFACED | It emerged what the tunnel workers did in the end (8) |
| INITIATE | What I did in the restaurant to begin with (8) |
| USEDCARS | Sounds like something the chauffeur did in the past for those outside garage (4,4) |
| MNEMONIC | Say, Lewinsky nearly caught revolutionary chaps' prompting aid? (8) |
| KARMA | A mark of what's going to happen to you in the future for what you did in the past (5) |
| NOVICE | The term for a racehorse which hasn't won prior to the start of the current season. (6) |
| PREQUEL | A story beginning prior to the start of the original one (7) |
| PRESCHOOL | Period prior to the start of formal education (3-6) |
| CLERIC | Priest detailed what may be thrown at wedding after Raquel's back in church (6) |
| GYRE | One of the things the slithy toves did in the wabe |
| FROZEOVER | Fahrenheit zero perhaps completed what the Earth did in the Ice Age (5,4) |
| LAUGHED | What the little dog did in the rhyme |
| CHINESETAIPEI | Taiwan has won the LLWS 17 times; due to disputes with Beijing it plays under this name, as it did in the recent Tokyo Olympics |
| SNEEZED | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| WHINECOOLER | What the nag did in the shade? |
| ADORABANT | Venerabantur, colebant; what the visitors did in the manger |
| BLUEINTHEFACE | Exasperated by what adverse wind did in the sound (4,2,3,4) |
