| FIRSTRATE | Top class and of A1 quality (5-4) |
| FORMULAIC | According to prescription, cast's top class and non-clerical (9) |
| GALLANT | Good books contain everything top-class and noble (7) |
| UTENSIL | Top class and mostly springy egg whisk? (7) |
| BOURGEOIS | An old type, middle-class and conventional |
| VORACIOUS | One less vicious, grasping or middle class and greedy (9) |
| BRITANNIA | Class and 70000 locomotive (9) |
| FORMATION | In which Red Arrows fly with class and land without initial direction (9) |
| SIR | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| NIGEL | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| GRESLEY | Engineer and designer of A1 Flying Scotsman and A4 Mallard (3, 5, 7) |
| PRIOR | Religious official's reasoning in case of A1 (5) |
| CAPITAL | For example, the "A" of "A1" (7) |
| TYPIST | It's a pity wrongly getting rid of A1 office worker (6) |
| ADO | Big fuss at completion of 'A1' engine 60163 (3) |
| PERCY | English sailor who won Olympic gold medals in 2000, in the Finn class, and 2008, in the Star class with Andrew Simpson (4,5) |
| IAIN | English sailor who won Olympic gold medals in 2000, in the Finn class, and 2008, in the Star class with Andrew Simpson (4,5) |
| NOVGOROD | Until their discovery, it was assumed that writing was the preserve of the church and the ruling class and that most people were illiterate. Since 1951, these medieval boiled-birch-bark documents, of |
| DREAM | The leaders of D-class, E-class and Mersey including Tamar, ultimately are excellent (5) |
| PLAZA | Post second-class and third-class map back to town square? (5) |
