| PARTYLINE | Tie-in to another telephone customer, as well as a tie-in to this puzzle's theme |
| BOARD | Tie-in to this puzzle's theme entries |
| AUSTRALIA | European country takes a learner in to another country (9) |
| STREETVALUE | Cost to the customer, as of illicit drugs |
| CLIENTELE | Chemical engineer defends right to telephone customers (9) |
| KNOT | A tie in a cord, lace, ribbon or rope; a clump or cluster; a lump; a tangle; an intricate flower-bed; or, a rosette (4) |
| BIND | A tie in music; a stem of a twiner such as the hop; or, a nuisance (4) |
| ANNE | First name of a queen whose name is immortalised in a style of architecture as well as a flat race at Royal Ascot, a blend of tea and a flower with lace-like petals (4) |
| NOIFSANDSORBUTS | "I don't want to hear any excuses," as well as a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| HERBALPERT | Only person to have a #1 song with a vocal performance as well as a #1 song with an instrumental |
| HANDRBLOCK | Tax giant, as well as a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| ANDOR | Star Wars series, as well as a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| ORGY | Bloody good to drop in to this party |
| EASTER | There's always a way in to this festival |
| INSECT | To get in to this cult you need six legs! (6) |
| PLAYOFF | A contest to decide a tie in a sports competition (7) |
| LOOSEN | Undo a bit, as a tie |
| SELLE | French river in Picardy that was the site of the battle between Julius Caesar and the Nervians in 57 BC as well as a 1918 battle in World War I |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| HALFCARAFE | Container that holds two generous glasses of wine (as well as a double dose of this puzzle's theme?) |
