| APTUS | Ready and prepared, fitting for a chap |
| POISED | Pressure on Love Island has top journalist ready and prepared |
| SOCKET | Word, with an odd set of linguistic ancestors including a pig's snout, a ploughshare and a spearhead, for an electrical fitting for a bulb or a plug (6) |
| PLUG | A fitting for a socket for giving electrical connection |
| GROOVIN | '67 chart-topper for The Young Rascals fitting for a 'Sunday afternoon' |
| BAYONET | A type of fitting for a light bulb in which prongs on its side fit into slots to hold it in place (7) |
| NEWSREADER | Reward seen as fitting for a TV personality? (10) |
| GASPIPE | Fitting for a furnace, perhaps |
| NAUTICALSTRIPES | Summery fashion prints fitting for a yacht: 2 wds. |
| SIDELIGHT | Is reversing with pleasure fitting for a car? |
| DOORKNOCKER | Fitting for a rapper we could admit? |
| APT | Fitting for a confused Irishman? (3) |
| PEACEARCH | British Columbia/ Washington State border monument fitting for a dove: 2 wds. |
| TRUSS | A bundle of hay or straw; a pack; a nautical fitting for holding a yard; a cluster of flowers or fruit growing on a stalk; a corbel; or, a belt, frame, tie or other supporting/binding thing (5) |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| MANGEL | A little feed for a chap with a broken leg (6) |
| VICEROY | It's a bad thing for a chap to be a person of power (7) |
| COVE | Word for a bay, cavern, coastal inlet or rocky recess that is also an old Romany- or thieves'-cant-derived name for a chap, fellow or man (4) |
| MANIA | For a chap with a good upbringing, it's madness (5) |
| MANILLA | Tough paper for a chap, sick with a conclusion (7) |
