| FRONTDOOR | Where guests are welcomed as a cover for returning cross |
| ROOF | Cover for returning with nothing |
| OVERBURDEN | Give excessive work to old priest returning cross |
| DUVET | A thick soft quilt used as a cover for a bed |
| THROW | Decorative blanket as a cover for a chair; or, something you do with dice, quoits or clay onto a potter's wheel (5) |
| THATSAWRAP | It's used as a cover for the body, some meats or a gift for another. What is it? |
| FRONTMAN | A person used as a cover for some questionable activity (5-3) |
| FRONT | Business used as a cover for money laundering |
| SITDOWN | Of a meal, one where guests are served at table (3-4) |
| ISLAND | Desert - Discs; with the opening theme By the Sleepy Lagoon, radio programme where guests are invited to imagine themselves as castaways (6) |
| DRAWINGROOM | Scene of life class, maybe, where guests are entertained? (7,4) |
| RECEPTION | Acceptance in area where guests are greeted (9) |
| NUDISTCAMP | Getaway where guests are out of fashion? |
| MAT | A border of colour, dull gold or white as a contrast between a picture and its frame; a tangled mass of hair or weeds; a coaster or small rug; a web of rope yarn; a cover for a tea chest; or, the soli |
| ESCUTCHEON | A decorative metal or porcelain device such as a cover or drop over the hole of a lock or a fingerplate above a doorhandle; or, a heraldic shield bearing a coat of arms (10) |
| ACHILLEAN | A South American leader initially welcomed as a hero |
| HADIN | Welcomed, as a guest at the |
| CURTSEYED | Brief couple of points you had welcomed as a female |
| MAVERICK | Jagger, say, welcomed as a nonconformist |
| OPERCULUM | Bony flap serving as a cover, as for the gills of a fish (9) |
