| HANDOVERFIST | Quickly surrender, before everyone else, lacking resistance |
| EARLIEST | Nobleman on site, perhaps, before everyone else (8) |
| EVEREST | It's hard to get up the day before everyone else |
| FIRSTPICK | Player chosen for the team before everyone else: 2 wds. |
| MEFIRST | "I'm going before everyone else!" |
| PLAYTEST | Take turns before everyone else? |
| GETSAHEADSTART | *Begins before everyone else, say (... letters 6-8 and 13-14) |
| CLAIMTHEVICTORY | Come in before everyone else to ask for article on success (5,3,7) |
| RACEAHEAD | Nation needing a leader to make a surge before everyone else (4,5) |
| INTHELEAD | Where you"ll find the star before everyone else (2,3,4) |
| BALLERINAS | Begin before everyone else, with some hesitation, in a first show with dancers (10) |
| EARLY | The peer at the beginning of the year was there before everyone else (5) |
| INTESTATE | American way - lacking resistance, lacking will |
| OBEDIENT | Bone tired, lacking resistance, turning docile (8) |
| FAILS | Lacking resistance, weak son is unsuccessful (5) |
| AILMENT | Disease is possibly terminal, lacking resistance (7) |
| SUPERCONDUCTOR | Great guide, but one lacking resistance when very chilly |
| WHEELHOUSE | Part of vessel where, lacking resistance, bug bites hard |
| RAMFEEZLE | Scotland's weary sheep left in icy spell, lacking resistance |
| PETTY | Trivial and somewhat lacking resistance (5) |
