| PLIGHTS | Promises to put a clue in the postscript (7) |
| BETROTH | Promise to put a wager on US novelist (7) |
| ANSWERS | Netflix initially promises to put acting first to get results (7) |
| TATTOO | Many a clue in the TV series "Blindspot" |
| PLEDGE | Promise to put a shelf on quietly (6) |
| OATS | Promises to put out hard breakfast cereal? |
| ATSEA | Not having a clue, in the main? (2,3) |
| PIRATES | Buccaneers angry in the postscript (7) |
| CRYPTIC | From Greek for "hidden", a word for something mysterious, obscure, occult, puzzling or secret, such as a clue in an enigmatic crossword of the same name; or, the camouflaging colouring of certain anim |
| NUCLEUS | Focus on cryptic clue in the rising sun (7) |
| ANAGRAM | Clue in 'The Da Vinci Code' |
| PIOUS | Religious debt put in the postscript (5) |
| PRESUMES | Takes for granted there's a summary in the postscript (8) |
| PROMISES | In the postscript, is more prepared to give assurances (8) |
| PLATITUDES | Commonplace remarks require breadth of interpretation in the postscript (10) |
| SLAVETRADE | That section of commerce in which human beings are bought and sold (how we would like to be able to write this clue in the past tense!) (5,5) |
| DREW | Nancy -; fictional sleuth in a number of mystery stories including The Clue in the Crossword Cipher (4) |
| EARTOEARSMILE | Something just above the answer to this clue in the puzzle |
| SCHEDULE | He'd put in a variety of clues in the timetable |
| CATALOGUE | Go at a clue in different way - making a list (9) |
