| UPANCHOR | Villa in old city ready for main passage |
| ROSETTA | Old Egyptian city ready to interrupt work schedule |
| SEAWAY | Main passage |
| YACHT | Your old backer keeps tab for main racer (5) |
| SEAWARD | Aiming for main prize in Kent? (7) |
| MADEDISH | Daughter served up fish covered in potatoes for main course, maybe |
| CAPITAL | Finance for main city (7) |
| PELOTON | Term for main group in 53dn etc (7) |
| HIGHWAY | Elevated area in Wyoming for main route (7) |
| ESSENCES | German city has little time to look back for main points (8) |
| PRIMEMOVERS | Charge about to be adopted in Mississippi for main instigators (5,6) |
| AVAILABLE | A bishop housed in a villa, in resort close to diocese, for free (9) |
| PITT | US film actor who starred in films including Fight Club and Ocean's Eleven and bought a villa in Mallorca in 2016 (4,4) |
| BRAD | US film actor who starred in films including Fight Club and Ocean's Eleven and bought a villa in Mallorca in 2016 (4,4) |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| HOPKINS | Robert ___, Birmingham City winger signed from Aston Villa in 1983 (7) |
| DROPANCHOR | GP acquires rare old villa in moor (4,6) |
| VICTOR | Lindelof who signed for Aston Villa in 2025 (6) |
| SLIDING | Patio entrances or old sidings demolished for main part of 24Dn 11Ac (7,5) |
| DOORS | Patio entrances or old sidings demolished for main part of 24Dn 11Ac (7,5) |
