| APIE | "Stress cannot exist in the presence of ___": Mamet |
| STRESS | "___ cannot exist in the presence of a pie" (David Mamet) |
| ZOSIA | _ Mamet, played Shoshanna in US series Girls (5) |
| PLOW | "Speed-the-___" (Mamet play) |
| KANT | "Space and time, and with them all phenomena, are not things by themselves, but representations and cannot exist outside the mind." He wrote The Critique of Pure Reason. Who is this? |
| CHURCHWEDDING | Could be the means to a marriage of convenience for those joining union in the presence of the Father of the Chapel (6,7) |
| SHEATHE | Cover the woman in the presence of the man (7) |
| CORAM | Horace's in the presence of Owen initially in the old lie |
| CONVERSATIONS | Most of them are "monologues delivered in the presence of a witness," per the mystery author Margaret Millar |
| TACTICS | Military science of manoeuvring forces in the presence of an enemy; or, strategies in general (7) |
| OLDLADY | Wife, in the presence of the guys |
| DEMEAN | HUMILIATE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CLERIC |
| DESISTS | Ceases to have opening of service in the presence of believers (7) |
| MISADVISES | Drunken diva, in the presence of young ladies, says the wrong thing (10) |
| MELON | Head and heart of employee acknowledged in the presence of workers (5) |
| ROASTING | Process of heating ore to a high temperature in the presence of excess oxygen (8) |
| HAIL | Pellets of ice that fall from cumulonimbus clouds in the presence of strong updrafts (4) |
| CARLISLE | In 5.6, one traitor remains and in the presence of King Henry is condemned to death. What is his name? |
| OUTIE | "Severance" term for the part of one's psyche that can exist in the real world |
| VIVIPAROUS | (adj.) tending to stammer in the presence of dignitaries |
