| OPTIMISTIC | Some nerve admitting short time with One Direction is positive (10) |
| MINIMALLY | Short time with one male friend -- taking least time possible? (9) |
| GRINDSTONE | Wears down, over time, with one sharpener (10) |
| SELFESTEEM | Conviction that number one is positive (4-6) |
| INABSENTIA | While away time with one visiting inn - a base for rambling |
| EVERYWHERE | Primarily eccentric, so wife and her direction is all over the place (10) |
| LIKEMINDED | Fancied grabbing short time with editor, having similar outlook (4-6) |
| WISE | It's sensible if one direction is the opposite direction |
| EASTINDIES | One Direction is not out to stop working with lead singer from the Malay Archipelago (4,6) |
| INFINITE | One Direction is okay about it and that's immeasurable (8) |
| SWISS | Of a country where one direction is another? (5) |
| SHIP | One Direction is massive taking the tour overseas (4) |
| NOISE | Number one's direction is sound (5) |
| POP | Nicknamed "1D," One Direction is the ___ band that soared to stardom in 2010 after their third-place finish on the UK's version of "The X Factor" 7KH 2QH |
| SARDINE | Depressed about Queen up north with One Direction packed in, like, as one? (7) |
| ITALIAN | Going over to fix a time with one in Rome - this one? |
| AGEISTS | Some who discriminate can take a long time with one on the way back (7) |
| HUNGOUT | Spent time with one such as Attila, with joint disease (4,3) |
| SIPS | Spends some time with one's Buds |
| CATCHINGON | It's becoming popular to open with 11 across with One Direction mostly away (8,2) |
