| METIER | This trade would become more interesting if American were admitted (6) |
| COMEALIVE | Business lunch, say, that's about victory is to become more interesting |
| LIVENUP | As it happens, returning joke would become more exciting (5,2) |
| IDEAL | One trade would be excellent |
| ELUSIVE | Would be select if ninety were admitted, but difficult to catch (7) |
| DDE | AK and HI were admitted to the Union while he was in office |
| SCOTTISHTHIRDDIVISION | Football league which was created-in 1994-when Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County were admitted (8,5,8) |
| SACHIN | A child batting at the end of seventies would become this wonderful Indian cricketer (6) |
| IRAISE | "Let's make this hand a little more interesting" |
| SEASON | Make one's cooking more interesting, for a time (6) |
| BANQUO | According to the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth, whose heirs would become kings? (6) |
| FIDGET | Restless type of fellow one would become (6) |
| SPICES | Makes more interesting (6) |
| REGENT | It concerns a little gentleman who would become a ruler |
| UPSTHE | ___ ante (makes things more interesting) |
| JUICER | More interesting, as gossip |
| FRANCE | On July 1, 1903, several dozen cyclists embarked on the first Tour de ___, which would become the most famous European bicycle race |
| SUFI | Muslim mystic appears if American turns up (4) |
| MAFIOSO | So if American returns, ring mobster (7) |
| SUDOR | Sweat if American rejected party (Republican) (5) |
