| SCIENCEFICTION | Managed it, if conscience is a genre |
| PILLOW | Proverbially, a good conscience is a soft ___ (6) |
| METAPHOR | Franklin's "A good conscience is a continual Christmas," e.g. |
| EDM | Dubstep is a genre of it |
| POP | Bubblegum is a genre of this kind of music |
| DIEGO | _ Liorenta, Spanish footballer who is a Genre back for Leeds United (5) |
| IRAN | A country I managed it! (4) |
| GRANITE | Hard Rock Cafe's closing after guitarist initially managed it |
| RAN | Tried for office and managed it (3) |
| CARRIEDOFF | Managed it successfully, being spirited (7,3) |
| EIGER | Swiss mountain with the notoriously difficult to climb North Face; Clint Eastwood managed it in the |
| THEPSYCHIATRIST | They almost managed it! Script has year to produce episode of 1 25 (3, 12) |
| ROCK | Informal word for a diamond; seaside confectionery in the form of a mintflavour stick; or, a genre of music (4) |
| HIPHOP | A genre of music characterised by a strong, rhythmic beat and a rapping vocal track (3,3) |
| CALYPSO | A Greek nymph and a genre of Trinidadian music (7) |
| DUPIN | Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective that served as a prototype for a genre of investigators, C Aug |
| NOIR | A genre of crime fiction - or a description of 17 7? (4) |
| TECHNO | A genre of electronic dance music, characterised by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat (6) |
| CAMPUS | From the Latin for "field", the grounds and buildings of a college or university; the academic world; or, a genre of novel depicting this (6) |
| AGASAGAS | Books in a genre of literature named after a heavy heat-retaining stove (3,5) |