| PARTICULARS | Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details (11) |
| BACHELORDOM | State of single man second rate, desire noble Oscar (married) (11) |
| GOLDBERG | Rube awfully boggled about rap at first (8) |
| UNDERPREPARED | With inadequate amount done in advance, rep endured rap at work |
| STRIKEUP | Begin to play rap at university (6,2) |
| SPARTA | Peloponnesian War rival of Athens that anagrams to "raps at" |
| BENZENERING | In chemistry, what is a hexagonal configuration featuring six carbon atoms, each forming a single bond with a hydrogen atom in an alternating sequence of single and double bonds? (7,4) |
| BACHELORPAD | Chap with twenty children and untamed leopard in place of single man |
| KNOCKON | Rap at |
| KNOCK | Rap at a door |
| TAP | Rap at |
| TUESDAY | Named after the Norse god of single combat and glory Tiw, one of the seven periods of time forming a week (7) |
| FORMULAONE | Governed by the FIA and with seasons consisting of a series of Grands Prix, the highest level of single-seat, open-wheel pro motor racing (7,3) |
| BUNK | One of a pair of single berths or shelflike beds, one above the other; or, from the name of a North Carolinian county alluded to in an inane speech, a word for claptrap, humbug or tedious nonsense (4) |
| BEE | Insect that's the symbol of the singer of Single Ladies |
| TWIN | Bedroom with a pair of single beds; a macle in crystallography; or, either of two born at a single birth (4) |
| PAR | What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to |
| KERBSIDE | Originally Killer Queen on reverse of single Edge of the Road (8) |
| PONCHO | A cloak made of single piece of cloth with a hole in the middle (5) |
| RHIZOPODA | Phylum of single-celled protozoa to which most of the amoeba belong (9) |
