| MAIDENFLIGHT | The first time the girl tried to escape by air? (6,6) |
| FLIGHT | Escape by air? (6) |
| DOGTIRED | Exhausted girl tried to recover after party (3-5) |
| CENSORED | "Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is ___ by their elders": Margaret Mead (8) |
| SOUTHAFRICA | Group A: This country hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, marking the first time the event was staged on the nation's continent |
| LAUNCH | Send to sea for the first time: - the boat |
| FLYAWAY | Escape by air (3,4) |
| SKYEBOATSONG | Wild snakes to go by air? (4,4,4) |
| THOU | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| WHEREART | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| OBROTHER | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1,7,5, 3,4) |
| ELUDE | Sharing its root "to play" with a simple parlour game, a word meaning to baffle; or, to escape by cunning (5) |
| FLEA | Insect to escape by the sound of it (4) |
| SYLVIA | Shakespearean female who is helped to escape by Eglamour (6) |
| OUTBOARDMOTOR | Crazy Broadmoor tout means to escape by sea? (8,5) |
| STOWAWAY | A person who hides in a ship, often to escape by stealth from a country (8) |
| MAKEARUNFORIT | Attempt to escape by leaving at speed (4,1,3,3,2) |
| CERBERUS | It is described as the three-headed watchdog of the underworld. It devoured anyone who tried to escape the kingdom of Hades. |
| TRUTH | It's time the girl had the facts (5) |
| ETNA | Time the girl going round the mountain (4) |
