| GRILLROOM | Restaurant where there's space closely to question the starter (5,4) |
| LISTENING | If the person you're talking to says, "I'm all ears," it means she is ___ closely to everything you're saying |
| ASTRONOMY | What could possibly interest foodies ignoring the starter and staring into space? (9) |
| STILLROOM | There's space yet where the liquor is kept (5,4) |
| CHARTROOM | Where presumably there's space to put maps (9) |
| TIGHTKNIT | Bound closely to drunken noisy fool (5-4) |
| FIRSTRATE | The starter, assess as really good (5-4) |
| TAILGATED | Followed very closely to get laid at random (9) |
| FOUNDRESS | Was she the starter, perhaps, of strip? (9) |
| SKINTIGHT | Fitting closely to family ties originally seen in vision (9) |
| ENLIGHTEN | Inform there's space next to lift (9) |
| TRATTORIA | This restaurant'll advertise tasty tapenades, olives, ricotta - Italian antipasti - you'll want the starters! (9) |
| ONTHEMOVE | Going over books, there's space in a seaside town (2,3,4) |
| BOARDROOM | Committee chamber for having meals, if there's space (9) |
| SQUEEZEIN | "There's space for one more!" |
| ENTRENOUS | Between you and me, there's space and time north of city in Nevada (US) (5,4) |
| NICHE | Pleasant to hold hydrogen where there's space in the wall (5) |
| GLADE | Happy to go East where there's space between the trees (5) |
| MOOR | Tie the boat up where there's space to go astern (4) |
| DRAWINGROOM | In the home, where there's space to have a tug-of-war? |
