| CELLIST | Room first for a musician |
| CELLO | Circle room first for instrument (5) |
| SPACEBAR | Counter has room first for part of typewriter (5,3) |
| SWAIN | Word first for a boy servant or for a young man attending a knight, later a country youth or peasant; a rural lover; or, a male suitor or admirer (5) |
| CABINET | Word for a hut or small room first, later a case or cupboard for displaying valuables or works of art (7) |
| FOUNTAIN | Word first for a natural spring of water, later for an artificial one; or, a reservoir in a lamp/pen for oil/ink (8) |
| 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) |
| CAREER | From the Latin for "wheeled vehicle", word first for a racecourse or a gallop at full-speed, later a swift headlong rush; or, one's profession or progress through life (6) |
| FLATFISH | Indirectly look for rooms first? It could be a fluke |
| ATTICA | One getting room first in Greek department |
| HALLO | Outstanding room first to be blessed (8) |
| SPACECRAFT | Art room first to show heavenly vehicle (10) |
| ALARMISTS | Scaremongers sadly securing room first (9) |
| OLIVIER | Green room's first entered by one actor |
| TSHIRT | Word first for a vest /undergarment, later for a slip-on casual top (1-5) |
| LOZENGE | From "stone slab", a word first for a rhombus, later a cachou, medicated tablet or pastille, originally in the shape of the aforesaid diamond (7) |
| GLEAM | From "glow-worm", word first for a bright/brilliant light such as a sunbeam, but now a dim or transient glow (5) |
| ESPRITDECORPS | Stripe ruined look of room - first signs of paint strained group morale (6,2,5) |
| LOBBY | Writer needing room first, one reports on parliamentary affairs (5,13) |
| CORRESPONDENT | Writer needing room first, one reports on parliamentary affairs (5,13) |
