| UNHITCHED | Formed group, dropping flipside and having best-selling record released (9) |
| TASKFORCE | After time, inquire about supporting Church's specially-formed group |
| WHITSUNTIDE | Top-selling records released, say, after start of Woodstock festival |
| EMBER | Person in group dropping money in dying fire (5) |
| ACTION | Dissenting group dropping original lawsuit |
| SCREAMED | Son having best parts removed yelled in anguish (8) |
| WELLMEANING | Having best of intentions to align new elm differently |
| STOP | Tricky having best strongbox to pull up without risk (4,6) |
| SAFELY | Tricky having best strongbox to pull up without risk (4,6) |
| NUMBERONE | Having a best-selling record myself (6,3) |
| HITPARADE | Strike march to have the most popular records released (3,6) |
| THRILLER | Best-selling record album of all time |
| PLATINUM | Sort of best-selling record for a blonde (8) |
| ANDSODOI | Best-selling record by Jimmy Dorsey |
| SMASHHIT | Best-selling record (5,3) |
| CANONISED | Soon one's buried in church and, having died, is made a saint (9) |
| RESCINDED | ... and, having cried, ends somehow in being cut away (9) |
| MEZZALUNA | Kitchen chopper shaped like a half-moon and having a handle at each end (9) |
| SHIFTLESS | Lazy and having no time for work (9) |
| BEHEADING | Being with a head and having it cut off at the same time? (9) |
