| DEWLAP | Reacted as friend connected closely with double chin (6) |
| TOOKTHEBAIT | Informally, "reacted as someone else planned" |
| PALATE | Sense of taste revealed as friend dined (6) |
| IMELDA | Disgraced shopaholic, one to associate closely with a stain on island (6,6) |
| PERUSE | For each exercise, study closely with care (6) |
| DESERT | Nickname, used by his foes as well as friends, of the commander of the Afrika Korps during the Second World War (3,6,3) |
| ALLIED | Joined together as friends (6) |
| LIAISE | Work closely (with) (6) |
| KEEPUP | Follow closely, ... with the latest news (4,2) |
| REAIRS | Runs, as "Friends" does on Nick at Nite |
| ROMANS | Caesar's people, addressed as friends and countrymen by Mark Antony |
| ADHERE | follow closely, with "to" |
| PORING | Examining closely, with "over" |
| INWITH | Among, as friends |
| JOWL | Jay, bird with pendulous double chin (4) |
| COMPADRE | Draw analogies with accepting daughter as friend (8) |
| BUNCHED | Crowded when wiping oil off messy double chin! (7) |
| EQUALLY | As friend of Brussels, accepting Queen |
| ETERNALLY | Oriental lost as friend for ever |
| PARTIAL | 'As friend, Arthur,' I put in, 'is biased' (7) |
