| HOUSEKEEPERS | Accommodate the last lines of defence for those cleaning up after the clergy (12) |
| KEEPGOAL | Protect the last line of defence for castle with The Holy Grail (4,4) |
| FULLBACK | One of the last lines of defence has swallowed more than one's share and support (8) |
| SHAMPOO | Fraud on poor reduced by one of those cleaning up The Fringe, etc. (7) |
| ONKP | Cleaning up after the mess? |
| MALCOLM | He has the last lines in "Macbeth" |
| SAPS | Weakens lines of defence (4) |
| HARRYPOTTERANDTHE | *With 49-Across, J.K. Rowling book with the last lines, "The scar had not pained Harry for 19 years. All was well." |
| FAWLTYTOWERS | The last line of this classic comedy series was "I'm afraid it's started to rain again" |
| GOALKEEPERS | These players are the last line of defence on the soccer pitch |
| NETMINDER | New men tried out to become the last line of defence (3,6) |
| GOALIE | In sport, the last line of defence (6) |
| TEMPESTTOST | *"Send these, the homeless, ___ to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (last lines of "The |
| PIG | That'll do ___. That'll do. (last lines of the movie Babe) |
| TSETSES | Last lines of sonnet recalled trapping end of penis in flies (7) |
| SANS | Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech |
| ORPHAN | First line of a paragraph set as the last line of a column (6) |
| HOME | Last line of defence in World War II (4,5) |
| FREESAFETY | In football, position that's sometimes the last line of resistance |
| PENTAMETER | Write tractable phrase when missing the last line of verse (10) |
