| BRIDEGROOM | Two potential joiners - one of which is prepared to join Union (10) |
| CHAUDFROID | Jellied culinary sauce which is prepared hot but served cold (10) |
| CARTILAGE | Joiner one left to get on passing wagon |
| MARRYINTO | Martin and Roy are prepared to join in matrimony |
| ADHESIVE | He's in a low-down place, prepared to join |
| BLINDDATES | One of the Venetians goes to meetings for those strangely looking to join union (5,5) |
| DOUBLEBASS | Two goals in school - one of which is to play in the band (6,4) |
| LIVESINSIN | Fails to join union That's the reverse of wrong, wrong, wrong (5,2,3) |
| GETHITCHED | Dec eighth: roughly about time to join union |
| DISENGAGED | Unattached Democrat has agreed to join union |
| SWEETIEPIE | Love that is stopping two potential courses (7-3) |
| PATTISMITH | She has written three bestselling memoirs, one of which focused on her relationship with photographer Robert Maplethorpe |
| TELENOVELA | Spanish-language soap opera, one of which was parodied on an "SNL" sketch on Saturday that starred Bad Bunny |
| ASPS | Archaic term referring to venomous snakes of Egypt, one of which is believed to have killed Cleopatra (4) |
| REDGIANT | Two types of panda - one of which is a big star |
| NITRIDE | Which compound usually contains two elements only, one of which is nitrogen (7) |
| DOUBLEENTENDRE | A word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risque (6,8) |
| FIANCEE | One to join union in cafe surprisingly close to office (7) |
| UNICORNS | Mythological horse-like beasts, one of which is used as a supporter on the royal coat of arms of the UK with a lion (8) |
| ORFE | Freshwater fish of the carp family, the golden one of which is often a popular inhabitant of garden ponds! (4) |
