| OVO | Ab - (from the start) |
| INITIO | From the start: ab ___ |
| MEL | He wrote and directed The Producers in 1968 - it's now become the film of the musical of the film ab |
| VESPERE | In the evening or from the west (ab ____) |
| BLOODBANK | The first such storage for supplies of the recently discovered types A, B, AB and O was established |
| JON | 'I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in ab |
| DEXTERA | From the RHS: ab ____ (forma longa, trisyll., ut saepius) |
| TORO | From the couch; ____ sic orsus ab alto, Virgil Aen. 2.2 |
| JENNIFER | ___ Saunders, Ab Fab comedienne, who wrote the book for flop musical Viva Forever!, based on the songs of 14A (8) |
| BEFORETHEMAST | How the AB trained in front of the staff (6,3,4) |
| UMERO | Ab ____ pharetra pendet: a quiver hangs from the shoulder |
| ELUL | Ab follower on the Hebrew calendar |
| POWERBOAT | AB has towrope prepared for the vessel (9) |
| INN | A step up from aB & B |
| BOTANICAL | St. Albert, AB, 'The ___ Arts city' |
| FAY | Actress Wray from Cardston, AB |
| PALEONTOLOGY | Theme of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, AB |
| ANNUNCIATED | Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio (11) |
| BLOOD | Vital bodily fluid studied by a haematologist; types of which include A, B, AB and, the most common |
| NEEND | Saath ho tum aur raat jawan ___ kise ab chain kahan ...... from Kanch Ki Gudiya (5) |