| SINGLET | Top record in the charts by foremost of tenors |
| BATCH | Composer secures foremost of tenors for group (5) |
| GUDBUYTJANE | 1972 single by Slade kept off the top of the charts by Chuck Berry's My Ding-A-Ling |
| ULTRAVOX | Group whose biggest hit, Vienna, was kept off the top of the charts by Joe Dolce's Shaddap You Face |
| ALLNIGHTLONG | 1983 single by Lionel Richie kept off the top of the UK chart by Billy Joel's Uptown Girl |
| LORETTA | Lynn with sixty-three albums that made Billboard's Top Country Albums chart by the time of her death (October, 2022) |
| IAMWOMAN | 1972 Helen Reddy song that was the first number one on the Billboard chart by an Australian artist |
| PRIMER | Textbook of the highest quality by foremost of rabbis |
| COLUMNS | Articles in The Post by foremost of sportswriters (7) |
| MISONEIST | Somebody among jihadists absorbed by foremost of modern thinking? The opposite |
| BANISTER | Case of Greek wine sent back by foremost of customers (8) |
| PRESENTS | Donations posted in advance by foremost of sponsors (8) |
| PUNCH | Joke by foremost of cartoonists, second place in this magazine (5) |
| PAGETURNER | Compelling work produced by foremost of painters, mature artist |
| ARMAGNAC | Faulty anagram, by foremost of compilers, for French drink |
| BAVARIAN | German camel act replaced by foremost of Austrian ventriloquists, arguably (8) |
| PRESERVE | Keep book by foremost of playwrights (8) |
| CULDESAC | Blind alley, as clued cryptically by foremost of compilers (3-2-3) |
| DIAGNOSIS | They may be agonised about by foremost of surgeons (9) |
| RESULTS | Follows Ulster, beaten by foremost of sides (7) |
