Related Clues:

• In the highest degree
• For starters
• Guinness word
• Before all others
• Place to walk to
• Top degree class
• & 2 Early new year arrivals bringing good luck
• Preliminary
• Fail resits regularly: no hope of this?
• Extremely, very
• In winning position, grabbing rook?
• Pre-eminent
• The majority of; very
• Earliest; good degree
• Like Lord Archer's eponymous character (inter pares)