| BORSCH | Botching of Hamlet initially getting Shakespearean actors in the soup! |
| HAUNT | Ghost of relation coming to Hamlet initially |
| STAGEHAND | Put on Hamlet, initially with one of those moving scenes? |
| AWHILE | A ploy to detain Hamlet, initially for a brief period (6) |
| LEEKS | Breaches of confidentiality, by the sound of it - they could be in the soup! (5) |
| TUREEN | When the cardinal points to the true they're in the soup! (6) |
| GIELGUD | One of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the century, Sir John ... |
| LEE | Of all the actors in The Lord of the Rings films, who is the only one to have met JRR Tolkien? (11,3) |
| CHRISTOPHER | Of all the actors in The Lord of the Rings films, who is the only one to have met JRR Tolkien? (11,3) |
| TURTLES | Trust the French to get in the soup! (7) |
| TURTLE | He should pull his head in or he'll be in the soup! (6) |
| NOODLE | The simpleton, it seems, may be in the soup! |
| CASTOFF | The sort of clothing for the actors in the wings! (4-3) |
| NOODLES | What fools, to land themselves in the soup! (7) |
| POTAGE | Pea got mislaid in the soup! (6) |
| ONION | No! No! I want it in the soup! (5) |
| LENTIL | Ten got ill! It was something in the soup! (6) |
| LADLE | Della, unfortunately, may be in the soup! |
| TOMATO | Otto's wrong about ma being in the soup! (6) |
| LENTILS | Len's lit it for them - now they're in the soup! |
