| MIDDLEWEIGHT | Boxer who is the centre of attention? (12) |
| QUEENBEE | Woman who is the centre of attention among her associates (5,3) |
| AVRIL | Punk-pop star Lavigne who is the center of a bizarre conspiracy theory |
| SASA | Petricic who is the Middle East correspondent for CBC-TV |
| JEANBRODIE | Who is the middle-aged Edinburgh school teacher in Muriel Spark's 1961 novel? (4,6) |
| MIDDLESCHOOL | Classes in US that are the centre of attention? (6,6) |
| STEALTHESHOW | Nick, who's the sort to be the centre of attention |
| HOLDCOURT | Is this what the pillars of justice does to be the centre of attention? (4,5) |
| ONTHEBALL | Alert like a soccer player at the centre of attention? (2,3,4) |
| KNICKERS | Footballers hogging the centre of attention? That's pants! (8) |
| CENTREPIECES | King and queen as foci of attention? |
| LIMELIGHT | Tree on fire is the centre of attention (9) |
| BLINTZ | Jewish dish is the centre of attention during bombardment (6) |
| TENCH | Fish is the centre of attention in college (5) |
| RETRACENACIRRUH | Exonerated boxer who is the subject of a Bob Dylan song |
| TAYLOR | Irish boxer who is the undisputed and lineal world lightweight champion, Katie _ (6) |
| TYSIE | British boxer who is the inaugural British female superbantamweight champion, _ Gallagher (5) |
| LAKEMARACAIBO | Body of water in north-west Venezuela that is the centre of the South American oil industry (4,9) |
| NEOGENE | In international classification, what is the middle of the three periods into which the Cenozoic era is divided? (7) |
| ANTWERP | Belgian city that is the centre of the diamond industry (7) |
