| LILIES | '___ of the Field' (Poitier classic) |
| SIR | Sidney Poitier classic, To ___, with Love (3) |
| TOSIR | Sidney Poitier classic, ..., with Love (2,3) |
| GUESSWHOS | Sidney Poitier classic, ... Coming to Dinner (5,3'1) |
| TOSIRWITH | Sidney Poitier classic, ___ Love |
| SIDNEY | Poitier who won Best Actor for 1963's "Lilies of the Field" |
| WOLSEY | Orchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6) |
| LEG | In cricket, the side of the field to the left of and behind a righthanded batsman as he faces the bowler (3) |
| ANTHEM | Oh, say can you see?: At the beginning of every football game, a singer stands in the center of the field and sings the national ___ |
| BOOLE | George ?, 19th-century Lincoln-born mathematician regarded as one of the founders of the field of computer science (5) |
| FRONTRUNNERS | One of The Baskervilles admits reading The Messenger at school ahead of The Field (5,7) |
| AFTERALL | At the back of the field, in spite of everything |
| LEATHERED | Thrashed the revolutionary at the back of the field (9) |
| ESAU | "Man of the field," in the Book of Genesis |
| MATCHREFEREE | In The Ring and at the centre of The Field (5,7) |
| ACRES | An account given by the sappers will show the extent of the field (5) |
| POITIER | Sidney ___, Oscar-winning star of the 1963 film Lilies of the Field (7) |
| REAR | Is about to bring up the pack at the back of the field (4) |
| BACKMARKER | Support for the scorer at the rear of the field (4-6) |
| FISH | Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a "beast of the field" or a "bird of the air", later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout (4) |
