| BYEELECTIONS | Ways to take seats, but not in the general way (3-9) |
| GATECRASHERS | Those hoping to take seats for the party, unofficially open 18 across at Conservative Breakfast for meat consumers (12) |
| TICKETHOLDERS | Hot party candidates to begin with, of an earlier vintage and school, are likely to take seats (6,7) |
| TREND | The general way things go will incline to include the right (5) |
| EAST | Direction to take seat and make the first third (4) |
| GRUMPY | Cross empty gallery to take seat (6) |
| BYELECTION | How to win a seat, but not the general way (2-8) |
| SAT | Took a seat, but not a whole one (3) |
| BLEACHERS | Open seats, but they take away the colour (9) |
| THRONE | A fancy seat but not for her! (6) |
| TENCH | Fish seen from time on park seat, but not bass |
| HEREABOUT | Listen to a fight on the radio in the general vicinity (9) |
| ADUMBRATE | Indicate or describe in a general way (9) |
| DEPLOY | Set out, in a general way, to use force (6) |
| REVISIT | Minister and I take seats to make a comeback? |
| VISIT | Drop-in centre activists for second time take seats (5) |
| SATURATES | There's a rust in the seat but it soaks out (9) |
| CHAIR | Not leaving one's seat, but controlling the session (6,3,5) |
| TAKINGTHE | Not leaving one's seat, but controlling the session (6,3,5) |
| EGLANTINE | Madame ___, titular narrator of 'The Prioress's Tale' in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, named in the General Prologue (9) |
