| DRAWINGROOM | Part of a house for receiving guests |
| PARLOUR | Room for receiving guests in a monastery |
| SALON | Elegant room for receiving guests (5) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| ASKINGPRICE | Initial cost of a house for sale (6,5) |
| ADOPTION | The provision of a home for a small charge (8) |
| SLOT | An aperture for receiving a coin in a fruit machine or one-armed bandit; a place in a broadcasting schedule; or, the tracks/footprints of a deer (4) |
| RADIO | From "spoke of a wheel, beam of light", a form of communication referred to as "sound"; or, a set or wireless for receiving its signals (5) |
| DOVE | Columbary is a term for a house for this bird (4) |
| HOSTA | One receiving guests with a plant (5) |
| HOT | One receiving guests leaving sun in a sweltering state (3) |
| HOSTING | Receiving guests to sing raucously after end of church (7) |
| EYELET | Grommet for receiving a shoe's lace or sail's cord; a peephole; or, one of a series of perforations forming patterns in broderie anglaise (6) |
| LETTERBOX | Slot in a door or a red pillar for receiving mail; or, a case concealing a stamp in a puzzle-solving treasure hunt similar to geocaching (9) |
| MOTHEROFPEARL | Shell might include this sort of a home for petrol, nothing less (6-2-5) |
| POKERROOM | Part of a house that might have a full house |
| NURSERY | A room in a house for the special use of young children (7) |
| SIMILES | "Flat as a pancake" and "big as a house," for two |
| TENANT | Name a person who occupies a house for rent (6) |
| REMAX | Name on a sign outside a house for sale |
