| PRIMEVAL | Strait-laced English woman, very old |
| PRIMEMINISTER | Great office of strait-laced English clergyman |
| PRIME | Strait-laced English major (5) |
| BRAVO | Excellent support for woman, very old |
| UNAVOWED | Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted (8) |
| PERCEVAL | Friend embracing top woman very briefly outside church (8) |
| ONOFF | Lennon's 'Woman', very loud in bursts |
| DIFFICULT | Tough woman, very loud one, with sect |
| MISTRESS | Fancy woman, very French, embraced by mademoiselle (8) |
| HOSANNA | Cry of praise from woman very hard to upset (7) |
| BIKINI | A woman's very brief two piece swimming costume (6) |
| FEMININE | Woman's very good for protecting them at home |
| NEGLIGEE | What is a woman's very flimsy dressing-gown (8) |
| SHEFFIELDPLATE | Metalware the woman very loudly plied, working behind schedule (9,5) |
| TESSELLATED | Woman very happy, we hear, as plane may be filled up |
| CELTIC | ______ Woman, very popular '05 DVD concert with Irish women with gorgeous voices. |
| NIOBE | The point of writing about Old English woman of sorrows |
| VENDETTA | Very English woman engaging daughter in ding-dong battle |
| ELLIE | French female embraces one as an English woman (5) |
| EMISSARIES | English woman meets House representatives (10) |
