| IFAT | ___ ___ first you don't succeed try... |
| TRYAGAIN | If at first you don't succeed, try ___? (3,5) |
| MISTRIALS | If at first they don't succeed, try, try, try again! (9) |
| PLANB | What to try if at first you don't succeed |
| BLAMEASUBORDINATE | If at first you don't succeed... |
| TRYALITTLEARDOR | If at first you don't succeed... |
| RETRY | What to do if at first you don't succeed |
| REDEFINETHEMISSION | "If at first you don't succeed ..." |
| TRY | Word after "If at first you don't succeed ..." |
| NILDESPERANDUM | The end for Brighton? Paul's reminded about "If at first you don't succeed ..." (3,11) |
| DANCEFLOOR | I Bet You Look Good On The ___ ___ , first UK No 1 hit for English rock band Arctic Monkeys in 2005 (10) |
| ATOB | Getting from _ ___ _ (First step's progress) |
| OPENER | Season _ _ _ (first game) |
| ALFONTSCAPONE | ___ "___" ___ (first guy to say, "I don't like your type face"?) |
| CASSIDY | Natalie _ _ first played Sonia in EastEnders in 1993 (7) |
| SINKORSWIM | If you don't succeed, you'll fail - as you may in the pools? (4,2,4) |
| RIVERBANK | The ___ ___; first chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (5,4) |
| ANDCHILDREN | "Women ___ ___ first!" |
| DELABECHE | Henry _ _ _, first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (2,2,5) |
| ISLAND | To the _-_: first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography (2-4) |