| BUMPTIOUS | Self-important politician in bar promises to pay |
| LIMPNESS | Foreign politician in bar opens some schnapps, indicating it's not a stiff one (8) |
| MAJOR | Important politician, one ranked moderately highly (5) |
| STATESMAN | Important politician like Eisenhower? (9) |
| STATESMEN | Means test arranged for important politicians (9) |
| IKE | Big ___ (self-important person, in the South) |
| POMP | Ceremony has nothing to do with us being self-important (4) |
| SUPEREGO | In all conscience, perhaps wonderful with self-important one (8) |
| EGOTIST | Self-important person, say, first to back bars (7) |
| EGOMANIAC | Self-important type, say, Middle Easterner about to suffer setback (9) |
| STAIRHEAD | Vacuously self-important ass in top-flight location (9) |
| ARROGANT | Arriving with nothing, first to greet worker, self-important |
| PROUD | Self-important, too - to apologise |
| SWAGGERS | Walks in an arrogant, self-important manner (8) |
| RANTED | Declaimed in a loud, self-important way (6) |
| ARROGANTLY | Wild tarragon is put down heartlessly in a self-important way (10) |
| EGOTISTIC | It's got ice in it for the self-important (9) |
| IKES | Big ___ (self-important men, in Southern slang) |
| ETAT | "L'___, c'est moi" (self-important slogan ascribed to Louis XIV) |
| SMUGLY | in a self-important way |
