| EMISSARY | Single female in troubled year as agent |
| SUNRISEINDUSTRY | U.S. turns rides in troubled year to be business of the future? (7,8) |
| DONEFOR | In serious difficulty, a single female in bar keeled over |
| DONEGAL | Date single female in part of Ireland |
| BANISHED | Single female in group was cast out (8) |
| UNIFORM | High on rum, cuddling single female in flat (7) |
| PRAYER | Request made by pair over troubled year (6) |
| MONASTERY | Storeman's troubled years in secluded home (9) |
| DEPUTED | Appointed as agent, as expressed in legal document (7) |
| TESSA | _ Thompson stars as Agent M in Men in Black: International (5) |
| SLAM | In 1988 Steffi Graf became the only person in the century to win a true Golden ..., ie the Australian, French, US and Wimbledon titles in the same calendar year as Olympic gold |
| ALLYMCBEAL | Program parodied on "Futurama" as "Single Female Lawyer" |
| ASIF | No chance of single female hosting confirmation in Rome |
| HEMSWORTH | Chris _ (pictured) stars as Agent H in the sci-fi action comedy, Men in Black: International (9) |
| JETHRO | Mark Harmon stars in NCIS as Agent Leroy ___ Gibbs |
| TET | The New Year as celebrated in Vietnam during the first seven days of the first lunar month of the year (3) |
| LOSEONESHEART | Fail to retain a single female skill when falling in love (4,4,5) |
| MERIMEE | Prosper in cheerful time of year, as they say (7) |
| VIVALDI | Composer of the year as represented in pieces (7) |
| ELAL | Airline founded in the same year as the nation of Israel |
