Related Clues:

• Play the host to
• Do an usher's job
• Do a butler's job
• Welcome
• Escort
• Not stop at the door
• Greet, as a new year
• Opening bars
• Usher, perhaps
• Escort to the living room, say
• Escort through the door
• Welcome warmly
• Welcome at the door
• Take a coat and introduce, perhaps
• Start of a segue