| FACED | Confronted initial fear and passed with flying colours (5) |
| READIED | Prepared, studied and passed, with shared depth (7) |
| DREAD | Doctor first to dismiss initial fear (5) |
| GUILLOTINE | End discussion of a bill - look into the wrongdoing and penalise without initial fears (10) |
| SAILEDTHROUGH | Passed with flying colours (6,7) |
| ACED | Some peace demonstrators passed with flying colours (4) |
| MARINO | He passed with flying colors |
| AXED | Passed with flying colors |
| ACING | No beginner opposite, passing exam with flying colors |
| ACEIT | Pass a test with flying colors |
| HOIST | Word for "lift", hence a group of flying colours or flags, raised as a signal; or, a crane, jack or pulley with which to heave, elevate or winch (5) |
| STOOL | Motion passed with money's backing (5) |
| DIDOK | Passed without flying colors |
| GETAC | Pass without flying colors (three words) |
| GONFALON | North Cornish river encompassed by showman with flying colours (8) |
| ACE | Pilot to pass with flying colours? |
| AON | Get an ___ (pass with flying colours) |
| PASSES | Gets through an MOT - with flying colours perhaps? (6) |
| FLAGSHIPS | ... as their finest, in the main, would lead or go down with flying colours! (9) |
| BREEZETHROUGH | Wind from one end to the other to pass with flying colours (6,7) |
