| EQUIVALENT | Vital queen moves, or one as good |
| EQUAL | One's as good as another (5) |
| TEASPOONS | These we may require, or one as pot's boiled (9) |
| GLASGOW | 6 (and 1), as good when covered in warm light |
| GEYSER | Dull area around London, as queen moves back for spring |
| ACROSSTHEBOARD | Queen moves thus, taking in everyone (6,3,5) |
| SPEED | The rate at which something operates or moves; or, an old word for good fortune or success (5) |
| OVERTURES | Instrumental preludes to operas, oratorios or plays; or, opening moves or propositions to negotiations (9) |
| OARS | Moves or advances as if by rowing |
| TACTICS | Deed among uncontrolled moves or planned ones? |
| STALKS | Moves or walks along stealthily, furtively |
| CASTLES | Chess moves or princes' places |
| DIPS | Some dance moves or stock market events |
| SALSADIPS | Dance moves, or spicy bowlfuls |
| RATE | Speed at which something moves or changes |
| HIKES | Football moves, or phone-rate changes |
| DANCEOFFS | Contests with many moves, or a hint to the starred answers' outside-the-grid parts |
| ONETWOCOMBOS | Multipart boxing moves, or a hint to three vowels in each starred clue's answer |
| BREAKDANCES | Acrobatic street moves ... or a hint to parts of the answers to starred clues |
| MUSH | An Alpine, Arctic or Nordic journey over firn or neve with a dogsled; or, a command urging the team of huskies pulling said sled to move or go faster (4) |
