| ABSENTFRIENDS | Those honoured in a toast (6,7) |
| ANZACS | Abbreviated name of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps volunteers who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, honoured in a national day of remembrance annually on April 25 (6) |
| ASHA | ___ Bhosle, Indian Bollywood singer honoured in a hit single by Cornershop (4) |
| GOLDMEDALLIST | First person to be honoured in the Olympics |
| DRINK | General word for what is held in a glass and is raised in a toast (5) |
| CLINK | Sound of touching glasses in a toast (and a hint to finding the contest answer) |
| HATCH | Throat, in a toast |
| GLASSES | They're raised in a toast |
| CHEERIO | Drunkenly, I echo "The Queen" in a toast (7) |
| HERES | Opening word in a toast |
| CLINKER | Your glass, in a toast |
| CHINCHIN | Phrase used in a toast (4-4) |
| CSLEWIS | British novelist and Christian scholar, honoured in 2013, 50 years after his death, with a memorial in Poets' Corner (1,1,5) |
| UNKNOWNSOLDIER | "X", a man lately honoured in many countries |
| MICHAEL | This swimmer, (four medals, 1968 Olympics), is honoured in the name of an aquatic centre in Miller (7,6) |
| WENDEN | This swimmer, (four medals, 1968 Olympics), is honoured in the name of an aquatic centre in Miller (7,6) |
| JOHN | Inventor of marine chronometer, honoured in 2014 by Northern naming a Class 153 after him (4, 8) |
| HARRISON | Inventor of marine chronometer, honoured in 2014 by Northern naming a Class 153 after him (4, 8) |
| RAISINGAGLASS | Making a toast to rearing a good child (7,1,5) |
| WAGNER | Composer honoured in Bayreuth (6) |
