| IRRITATED | Annoyed by Dire Straits, unfortunately twice missing start of song (9) |
| UNDERWEAR | Ill, twice missing the briefs? (9) |
| ACKACK | Fire twice, missing small anti-aircraft guns |
| FLUSTERED | About start of song, music maker's looking embarrassed, agitated (9) |
| DISCUSSED | Start of song in record practised and reviewed (9) |
| DRAMATIST | Playwright having drink with performer missing start of rehearsal (9) |
| CLAMOROUS | Noisy class after a short time get excited, missing start of exam |
| ROADTESTS | American guys outside court, missing start of arson trials (4,5) |
| INARMS | Brothers - -; 1985 song by Dire Straits on their album of the same name (2,4) |
| SULTANS | ____ Of Swing, song by Dire Straits released in 1978 (7) |
| HARDSHIP | Musical instrument consuming one of those in The Police on successful song briefly produced by Dire Straits (8) |
| TUNNELOFLOVE | 1980 single by Dire Straits; 1987 album and single by Bruce Springsteen |
| ARTISTRY | Creativity shown by Dire Straits, short of opening tracks |
| MONEY | ___ For Nothing, song by Dire Straits (5) |
| NOTHING | Money For ____, song by Dire Straits released in 1985 (7) |
| MONEYFORNOTHING | 1985 song by Dire Straits whose music video was the first to be played on MTV Europe (1 August 1987) (5,3,7) |
| WALKOFLIFE | 1985 single by Dire Straits that reached number two in the UK charts |
| SATIRIST | Humorous type using irony produced single embraced by Dire Straits (8) |
| BROTHERSINARMS | The fifth studio album by Dire Straits, released in 1985 |
| PLIGHT | Promise once shown by Dire Straits? (6) |
