| EDUCATES | Trains the ace duets another way (8) |
| QUANTUMOFSOLACE | First James Bond film whose theme song was a duet (Another Way To Die) (7,2,6) |
| ANECDOTE | Noted how the ace figured in the short account (8) |
| ISTANBUL | The famous luxury train, the Orient Express, ran from Paris to where? (8) |
| ENGINEER | Train the Queen to manoeuvre (8) |
| SENORITA | Miss one's train, the last having gone, unhappily (8) |
| SPADILLE | Alternative name for the ace of spades, as used in the card games ombre and quadrille (8) |
| ESPALIER | Replies to a request for something on which to train the trees (8) |
| FOURTOPS | The ____, pop group with all the aces? |
| CAGINESS | Wary quality of how the aces sing (8) |
| ASCETIC | A hermit, layman, monk, spartan etc who disciplines/trains the soul or mind like an athlete trains the body (7) |
| STAGECOACHES | Boards trains, the way to travel at one time! (12) |
| TENNISCOACH | The bus to Wimbledon? He trains the racquet-man! (6,5) |
| EDUCATE | The only way to teach an ace duet (7) |
| AIMS | Trains the crosshairs |
| ASTRINGENT | With difficulty, trains the man in drawing (10) |
| SPRAYS | Trains the hose on clusters of flowers (6) |
| ORDERS | Tells one the way to train the rose round it |
| REBECCA | The Girl on the Train, The Snowman and Life actress, ___ Ferguson (7) |
| MACAWS | The Scotsman was to train the birds (6) |
