| DIPHTHONG | A pair of characters in lower hot pants |
| RECTORY | Guide losing first pair of characters in priest's residence (7) |
| TRUNCATING | Swap pairs of characters in turn, acting: it's taking the edge off |
| BRACKET | Either of a pair of characters used to enclose words or mathematical symbols (7) |
| TWOSHOT | Film technique that frames a pair of characters |
| VERSION | Form of a book, perhaps, providing amusement without first pair of characters (7) |
| DOUBLEINDEMNITY | Repeated hostility, switching pair of characters around in film |
| CORRECT | Put right my priest after excluding last pair of characters (7) |
| DIGRAPH | Pair of characters taunt husband admitting blame (7) |
| NOUGHTS | Pair of characters from 2001 (7) |
| BADLOSER | Someone like 7Dn put back leading pair of characters on the market again (3,5) |
| MOOMIN | One of a family of characters in books and a comic strip by writer-illustrator Tove Jansson (6) |
| ELIMINATE | Get rid of characters in hotel -- I'm in a temper (9) |
| WINTER | A Winter's Tale loses a stale lot of characters in one season (6) |
| ABSURDIST | Genre of fictional narrative concerning the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life (9) |
| OPERATIONCODE | In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performed |
| DOGSTAR | Stellar object whose proper name, Sirius, was given to an Animagus and one of a veritable constellation of characters in the Harry Potter books (7) |
| MET | Ran into a number of characters in Madame Tussauds (3) |
| STEEL | The staying power of characters in Fleet Street seen in retrospect |
| AMATI | One's played a series of characters in dramatisation |
