| DRESSINGGOWN | Sauce to go with starters of wings, nuts - typically, put it on first thing in the morning (8,4) |
| MADRID | Crackers to go with starters of raita in deli in European capital (6) |
| PANCETTA | Pecan nuts to go with starters of tenderloin terrine and cured pork (8) |
| RINGMASTER | Top top man making double wing nuts (10) |
| LEFTOFCENTRE | In the house, for instance, pink port to go with starters, oysters fish and recent bake (4-2-6) |
| HORSERADISH | Source of sauce to go with beef (11) |
| HOLLANDAISE | Sauce to go with fish (11) |
| PRIMER | Decorator puts it on first book for learners (6) |
| COLLAREDDOVE | Pigeon sauce to ladle over cod (8,4) |
| PORRIDGE | Most of the wine from narrow range of hills is best consumed first thing in the morning (8) |
| ICOMB | My coach left Bournemouth first thing in the morning, and after two hours I had travelled to my destination: a place near Stow-on-the-Wold (5) |
| NIGHTY | It's typically put on in the dark near outskirts of Torbay |
| EASTERLY | Wind first thing in the morning? Set to swirl in (8) |
| CURE | Taken first thing in the morning after late night drinks developed in laboratory (4) |
| BISSOM | First thing in the morning, my boss and I are travelling to a place near Penryn (6) |
| TEAMAKER | Drunk first thing in the morning finds father of Polly (3,5) |
| ATDAWN | Want ad to appear first thing in the morning (2,4) |
| ALBUM | Pound ugly first thing in the morning, some sort of record |
| MEATPIE | Pate I'm cooking to go with starter in entree dish |
| MAKEAMEALOF | Undertake with excessive effort to prepare lunch, say, with starters of oily fish (4,1,4,2) |