| DOORMAN | All Blacks prop Karl Tu'inukuafe used to be a 27st - - - at a nightclub (7) |
| CABARET | A floor show of dancing, singing etc at a nightclub (7) |
| DISCORD | Row at a nightclub on the way (7) |
| DAYSTAR | Venus wouldn't top the bill at a nightclub! (7) |
| DJBOOTH | Spinner's locale at a nightclub (2,5) |
| BOUNCER | ID checker at a nightclub |
| ASSAULT | Wales Sevens player Ben Cambriani pleaded guilty to an - - - charge after a nightclub incident last year (7) |
| ADJOURN | Put off a nightclub employee taking our name (7) |
| ANGELOU | Poet who adopted her name while working as a nightclub entertainer |
| SCARFACE | Alphonse Gabriel Capone bore this nickname as a result of the wounds to his cheek suffered in a fight at a nightclub |
| HOSTESS | Woman employed by a nightclub |
| HOTSPOT | Bob tucking into stew - in a nightclub? (3,4) |
| INASPOT | Encountering difficulty, like a nightclub entertainer? (2,1,4) |
| FRANKS | All Blacks prop centurion figured two successful World Cup campaigns (6) |
| WHINERAY | Wilson ........ , All Blacks prop; captain in 30 of his 32 Tests between 1957-65 (8) |
| TUUNGAFASI | Ofa - - - , All Black prop who this year converted to Islam (10) |
| KL | All Black prop switched to league with Penrith late 1970s, initials (2) |
| LOE | All Black prop who broke Paul Carozza's nose after a 1992 Test try, Richard ... (3) |
| BASH | I threw a party last month, at a nightclub right in the centre of Bristol -- it was wild! (4) |
| HOEFT | Carl --- , All Blacks prop (1998-2003) |