| MATES | Group in the morning coming back chums |
| TEAMMATES | Group in the morning met up to welcome a bunch of allies (9) |
| MAW | Open mouth in the morning, coming up with width (3) |
| UNMANLIKE | Madame's one to hug baker in the morning, coming over stereotypically soft? |
| MIG | I am coming back to the first gadget for some welding (3) |
| MAESTRO | Am coming back to manage store for expert (7) |
| IMBIBE | I am coming back about one, to decline drink |
| STAIR | Step back, traitors, I am coming through! (5) |
| MALADY | Am coming back with female complaint (6) |
| VALHALLA | "...to fight the horde and sing and cry, ___, I am coming." Led Zeppelin, "Immigrant Song" |
| MINUTIA | I am coming back with another unit, a very small detail (7) |
| ITSON | "Oh, I am COMING to your 'Mario Kart' tournament!" |
| BETTISCOMBE | I got a bit drunk in the Boar's Head in Etsome, and one of my chums had to arrange to drive me back to my place near Broadwindsor (11) |
| CLAP | In the face of indignant maidenly discouragement, chums up! (4) |
| SLOBS | The ___, Wayne and Waynetta in Harry Enfield and Chums (5) |
| PORTALS | The chums duck right through the entrances (7) |
| BROTH | I took two of my chums to a top restaurant in the middle of Sandbanks - we all ordered soup (5) |
| FRIENDS | From an ancient root meaning "to love" and first recorded in the Old English poem Beowulf, one's allies, chums, comrades or privados (7) |
| REUNION | Meeting of old school chums from an island in the Indian ocean (7) |
| SUNS | Sir Charles and chums, in basketball |
