| ORDINAL | Racket interrupts exam first, for example (7) |
| FASTEST | Female when given exam first to finish |
| EQUATES | Exam's first question was worrying, second is deemed comparable (7) |
| ENDING | Racket interrupts English finale (6) |
| SATS | Exams first administered in 1926 |
| GRIEG | Composer for King George the First, for example |
| DATE | May first, for example, become old-fashioned (4) |
| ISOLATIONISM | Omit liaisons can cause "America First" for example (12) |
| EGO | Ring first, for example, self (3) |
| PLACATING | Calming first, for example, at parting (9) |
| CONGREGATION | Conservative government's first, for example, to stop helping assembly |
| NEEDLESSTOSAY | Toss out pin first, for example, as one would expect |
| TESTER | Swallows what's given to king first, for example, when planning painting (6) |
| CHEAPER | For every ache treated first for less money (7) |
| AMERICA | First person to be queen in charge? Anne's first for this land (7) |
| COASTER | Word first for a silver dish for sliding a wine bottle or decanter between guests sat at a table, now a beer-mat or other small tegestological disc (7) |
| BILLION | One on account first for a huge sum (7) |
| TASTING | Do thank you first for trying a sample (7) |
| CHICAGO | A first for Groucho in his brother's show (7) |
| TWOSOME | Any small number first for the match (7) |
