| DINNERLADIES | Instruction to women to take their seats with service providers perhaps (6,6) |
| BYELECTION | How all are chosen to take their seats is how only one is chosen too, you see? (2-8) |
| SESSION | During which those who stood take their seats (7) |
| GREASEMONKEY | Escort service provider perhaps -- bribe with £500 (6,6) |
| EVE | She was the first women to take part in the venture (3) |
| SISTERS | Ordered women to take step away from stepsisters (7) |
| SPAS | Peat pulp bath providers, perhaps |
| DJS | Wedding music providers, perhaps |
| RELIGIOUSWAR | Faithful campaign leads to trouble between the service providers (9,3) |
| CRITICALMASS | Finding fault with service - enough to trigger a reaction |
| DECLARATIVES | Junior works with service data statements (12) |
| UNARM | Girl going to the Marines to take their guns away (5) |
| USURPER | One who ousts another to take their place (7) |
| EXITS | 'I know death hath ten thousand several doors/ For men to take their ___' (John Webster The Duchess of Malfi (1623) act 2 sc 5 |
| SITSTIGHT | Stays put in seats with little room to move (4,5) |
| CARFERRIES | Service providers to Martha's Vineyard, e.g. |
| PUBLICUTILITY | Water provider, perhaps, cannot be regarded as a private service (6,7) |
| BLOODDONOR | A provider, perhaps British, crazy to host strange men (5,5) |
| OVERWRITE | Take on extra risk with service, chasing succession of balls |
| PRIESTS | Persist with unpredictability in service providers (7) |
