| BACKDROP | Background to a scene or situation (8) |
| VANTAGEPOINT | A position that allows one a wide or favourable overall view of a scene or situation (7,5) |
| INCIDENTALMUSIC | Background to a film or play |
| SETTHESCENE | Describe the background to a story, event, etc (3,3,5) |
| DOWNPLAY | In Ulster, make a scene or keep it discreet? (8) |
| TAKE | A scene or version of a shot filmed at one time; a sequence of recorded music; a capture of a chess piece; a catch of a ball; or, a quantity of copy given to a compositor (4) |
| SEQUENCE | A division of a film roughly equivalent to a scene in a stage play (8) |
| ABATTOIR | Backs civil disorder on the computer connected to a scene of bloodshed (8) |
| SKILLETS | Puts as a background to the murder in the vessels (8) |
| APPROACH | An avenue or drive; draw near to; a means of dealing with a job, problem or situation; or, the way in which an aircraft comes in to land (8) |
| HERITAGE | Background to one child's game wrapped up in present (8) |
| ADOPTIVE | How Oliver might explain his background to mysterious avid poet (8) |
| STAGESET | Background to the drama (5,3) |
| VIGNETTE | Small scene or character sketch (8) |
| TRAILERS | Actors are in them - between scenes or prior to release! (8) |
| SKETCHES | Short comedy scenes or vignettes (8) |
| BYPASSED | Took a detour, perhaps, to avoid a particular place or situation ? (8) |
| LEVERAGE | Power to influence a person or situation (8) |
| INFORMED | Having or showing knowledge of a subject or situation (8) |
| CURTAIN | Drape concealing a stage whose fall marks the close of a scene; or, an item traditionally made by a draper, sometimes with extra puddling (7) |
