| CHARMOFFENSIVE | Way of gaining your objective by being nice (5,9) |
| ENTREE | Way of gaining access a€“ dish (6) |
| OVERARM | Provide too many ways of gaining advantage in bowling technique (7) |
| SCRAPEHOME | Gain objective by barest margin |
| ENDORSE | Support objective by detective with month gone (7) |
| SCHUMANN | One Robert that is sort of being nice to start with |
| SWEET | Being nice means very little, in a way (5) |
| RESONANCE | Being nice, I left - reason being sympathetic vibration (9) |
| CONQUEST | Achievement of victory through a form of combat whose name is linked to a horse chestnut or "cheeser" used in a playground battle; a successful ascent of a mountain; or, the act/art of gaining a perso |
| EXISTENCE | Being nice, set off after former lover (9) |
| EXACTNESS | Former head taking turn in being nice |
| STROKING | Being nice to, all right, in the train (8) |
| PEASANT | Rustic originally let off being nice (7) |
| INNOCENCE | There's no blame to its being nice once about the North (9) |
| AMIABLE | Able to take Miss Farrow inside, being nice and easygoing (7) |
| BENIGN | Liberal being nice to start with? (6) |
| ONEUPMANSHIP | The knack of gaining advantage over others which Stephen Potter popularised in his book of the same name (3-9) |
| LATCHKEY | The French get uncomfortable sensation missing one crucial means of gaining access (8) |
| BREAKPOINT | Come out east, say, on verge of gaining upper hand (5,5) |
| TURNSTILE | A roundabout means of gaining admission (9) |
