| ADDRESS | Speak to daughter wearing a formal garment |
| ADMINISTER | Manage to fit skirt to daughter wearing flower |
| MINDED | Objected to daughter wearing denim pants (6) |
| ADJOIN | Neighbour appears odd at first wearing a formal jacket at home |
| AUNTIE | Relative from United Nations wearing a formal strip (6) |
| ROBE | Word, from "booty, plunder", for a formal garment once taken as spoils of war; a cloak synonymous with the legal profession; a rich dress; a dressing-gown; or, in short, an armoire or closet for cloth |
| TRAILBLAZER | Portland NBA player whose first six letters anagram to "tribal" (Theme answer: A verb opposite "lead" precedes a formal garment) |
| FOLLOWSUIT | Instruction in a trick-taking card game whose middle four letters spell the opposites of "highs": 2 wds. (Theme answer: A verb opposite "lead" precedes a formal garment) |
| STKILDA | Daughter wearing a kilt's dancing somewhere in Scotland (2,5) |
| SIDETRACK | Divert daughter wearing a sticker loosely (9) |
| TILDE | Mark's daughter wearing a hat (5) |
| CADRE | Worry that daughter's wearing a red outfit? |
| ADJUST | A formal garment, American -- time for change? (6) |
| TAILCOAT | A man's formal garment with a characteristic divided rear skirt, de rigueur for white-tie dress code (4,4) |
| WETSUIT | Formal garment for wearing in the rain? One might take a dive in it (7) |
| WIDGIE | Daughter wearing hairpiece? That's a Teddy girl down under |
| EVADE | A daughter wearing the first lady's skirt (5) |
| CARDIGAN | Daughter wearing out a racing jacket (8) |
| BANGLADESH | A daughter wearing bracelets at hotel in the country |
| DINNERJACKET | Formal garment named for a meal |
