| GODSLOT | Time for services, perhaps, to depart: plenty on backs of crowded platforms (3,4) |
| CHINAWARE | Face feature on the ball for service, perhaps |
| RINGDOWN | Call room service, perhaps, to do something with curtain |
| INLINE | Waiting for service, perhaps |
| WARBLING | Vulgar stuff assumed by those on active service, perhaps, to be singing (8) |
| OBOES | They produce notes originally on backs of envelopes scribbled (5) |
| STRAYS | Sunshine on backs of kennels burnt dogs? |
| TRAFALGAR | Battle time for service on much of Portuguese coast (9) |
| MARRIAGES | I'm upset about a bishop taking a long time in church services perhaps |
| DIGONESOWNGRAVE | Dispense with sexton's services, perhaps, and head for trouble |
| RINGABELL | Sound familiar when it's time for service (4,1,4) |
| DINNERSET | Ultimately bad pub, Irish, with little time for service |
| WORSHIP | Be in service perhaps for your address to the beak (7) |
| SAMPLES | Tastes plenty on board (7) |
| NETBALL | Bungle service perhaps for game (7) |
| CROATIA | Active national service perhaps enlivens this country (7) |
| BUSTLES | Silhouette-enhancing tournures used to add fullness to the backs of the skirts of Victorian ladies' dresses (7) |
| GASCANS | Items on the backs of some Jeeps |
| DRYADES | Nymphs run through the backs of sundry glades (7) |
| SCRUFFS | People who don't wash the backs of their necks? (7) |
