| LOOKAFTERNUMBERONE | Our menfolk beaten - or prepared to put own needs first? |
| KEEPONESHANDIN | Put own employee under house arrest to retain capability (4,4,4,2) |
| NIGHTOWL | Late sleeper puts own light off (5,3) |
| ADAPTS | Puts own stamp on fancy tapas around starter dish (6) |
| LABOURER | Sailor breaking rule or prepared to give a hand? (8) |
| SPUNAWEB | Told lies, or prepared to catch flies |
| TRAIL | Beaten or blazed path in the wilds; or, a series of signs or clues such as footprints, spoor or line-shaped vaporous clouds marking the passage of a person, quarry or aircraft (5) |
| RUNWAY | An air/landing strip; a catwalk; a log chute; a trail; a stretch of sprint track before a jump or a throw; or, a wild animal's beaten or habitual path (6) |
| DEPOSIT | Top side prepared to put money down (7) |
| ENCHILADAS | Food Chilean prepared to put before lawyers (10) |
| ROASTERS | Pigs, potatoes or poults suitable for oven-cooking; the pans in which they are parched or prepared; people or places who/which cook coffee beans; or, hot scorching days (8) |
| DIGITAL | Modern type of communication - a student needs first to understand it (7) |
| SOCIAL | Informal party needs first to be a political one (6) |
| THINKOF | Be self-conscious and put setter's needs first (5,2,6) |
| MYSELF | Be self-conscious and put setter's needs first (5,2,6) |
| SELFCARE | Tending to one's own needs |
| SELFNEGLECT | Small pixie no good in vote through inattention to own needs (4-7) |
| SELFSUFFICIENT | Able to supply one's own needs (4-10) |
| EGG | It's beaten or balanced on a spoon (3) |
| SYSTEM | It may be beaten or bucked |
