| DOORWAY | Upset, cross and losing the head with guide - that's what you have to go through to get into The House! (7) |
| PRECARIOUS | Parking for speedy motorist reversing and losing the head with religious type is uncertain (10) |
| TRIVIA | Three go through to get trifles (6) |
| SYNTAX | Sounds as if that's what you have to pay for your linguistic transgressions (6) |
| TAPEMEASURES | They're for sizing up what the winner is expected to go through to determine final times (4,8) |
| WHERE | Had been hard to go through to find the location (5) |
| BAZAAR | Bleat about street guide that's right for the market (6) |
| DOORBELLS | They get pressed going into The Houses to upset cross types employed in hotel receptions (9) |
| ARENA | The Gunners short of seconds and losing the final in the stadium |
| TREASUREMAP | Pirate's guide that's hinted at phonetically by the starts of 17-, 29- and 44-Across |
| TRAPDOOR | When upset, cross to leave by stage exit |
| TIGON | No fool getting upset, cross |
| TINAFEY | "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute." She was the first woman to be head writer on Saturday Night Live. |
| CAPEHORN | The tip of South America you have to go round when sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific (4,4) |
| SPIRAL | You have to go round and round it to go up and down (6,9) |
| STAIRCASE | You have to go round and round it to go up and down (6,9) |
| GIFTOFTHEGAB | Would you have to go to the chattering classes for this ability to run on effortlessly? (4,2,3,3) |
| STAGEDOOR | What players have to go through after coach turned cross |
| PRETEND | President about to take care might have to go through the motions (7) |
| AGATE | What you went through to get it at the jeweller's? (5) |
