| UNDERSIGNED | The ___, writer of a formal letter (11) |
| WILLYUMSAFIRE | ___ "___" ___ (writer of a popular sundae column?) |
| MOORE | Clement C. ___, writer of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" |
| DEARSIRS | Opening words of a formal letter (4,4) |
| DEARSIR | Start of a formal letter |
| SALUTATION | Start of a formal letter |
| APPLICATION | The putting on of a formal request for post (11) |
| RESTATEMENT | Repetition of a formal account |
| TUXEDOSHIRT | Piece of a formal ensemble |
| CLOTHNAPKIN | Part of a formal place setting |
| SIR | Word of address to a man in a formal letter (3) |
| MALLET | A formal letter displays a chisel driver |
| EPISTLE | Get a formal letter and sleep it off (7) |
| QED | Abbreviation of a Latin phrase for "which was to be demonstrated or proved", used at the end of a formal proof and as the title of a former BBC science documentary series (1,1,1) |
| YOURSFAITHFULLY | Misplaced fury at sly, foul hit; no time to finish a formal letter (5,10) |
| ENTREE | French word for a dish served between the main courses of a formal dinner, or according to Mrs Beeton, a side dish served with the first course (6) |
| COURSE | One of the successive dishes of a formal meal; or, the ground over which golf is played or a race is run (6) |
| THEOREM | A statement or formula that can be deduced from the axioms of a formal system by means of its rules of inference (7) |
| SWIFT | Jonathan ___, author of A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal (5) |
| ASTELL | Mary ___, author of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest (1694) (6) |
