| DAVISCUP | Party is very first about increase in tennis championship (5,3) |
| OPEN | Frank in tennis championship? (4) |
| PENSIONEDOFF | Forced to retire as 14 across is starting and energy coming from party is very loud (9,3) |
| EINGANIM | The very first moshav esbtalished in yeshuv Palestine (3,5) |
| NEBRASKA | Right, Ben, go back and ask first about a state in midwestern USA (8) |
| STMINVER | This was the very first minster to be constructed in the Bodmin Registration District -- it's near Polzeath (2,6) |
| ADAMICAL | Like the very first man we are likened to: a claim Da brought about? (8) |
| SCENEONE | Very first part of a play |
| MANGROVE | King tucked into fruit, very first from exotic tree (8) |
| ENOLAGAY | Two descriptions of Daffyd in the village, the first about dropper of bombshell (5,3) |
| PATHOGEN | No information by the way first about substance that causes disease |
| SEMANTIC | Holding a book, half-clear at first about what words mean |
| STOPCOCK | Valve first about to plug single bit of hose |
| SCRIBBLE | Quickly write sketch at first about Yorkshire river (8) |
| UNIVERSE | Stanza, a French one first, about cosmos (8) |
| REGISTER | Man first about to return record (8) |
| ARISEN | Having got up article about increase in pay (6) |
| GROWTH | Flaming row, theoretically about increase in GDP (6) |
| APPRISE | Inform about increase in price of software (7) |
| SADDLES | Less bothered about increase in seats (7) |
