| PROTAGONIST | Chief actor will go on, its part being written out (11) |
| THESPIAN | The pains to which an actor will go? (8) |
| AGGRAVATE | Make things worse than grave, a tag being written out (9) |
| UNWHOLESOME | One in France has the full amount with part being detrimental to health (11) |
| WHITECOLLAR | Actor - will he fancy this kind of work? |
| HARP | Instrument of national import: go on, it's at your fingertips! (4) |
| TAKENFORGRANTED | Struck phoney has to go on, it's assumed (5,3,7) |
| SHOW | It must go on, it's said |
| IEOIN | Interest being written up on a voyageur |
| SHOOTINGSTAR | A heavenly phenomenon taking the A heavenly phenomenon taking the chief actor! (12) |
| LEAD | Element Pb; a chief actor; or, a dog's tether (4) |
| TSAR | Chief actor casts brave girls in central parts |
| STARLING | The bird is heather after the chief actor (8) |
| CAROLINE | Girl given brief part, being hugged by Michael on screen? (8) |
| GOBETWEEN | We get on amazingly without Ben for the most part being an intermediary (2,7) |
| BLOCKCAPITALS | Stop Paris and Rome, for example, being written in large plain lettering (5,8) |
| PRESCRIPT | Old-style rule, prior to anything being written down? (9) |
| NEIGHBOURS | Hours being written off to see soap |
| OVERSEE | Supervise poetry being written in Old English |
| SNASTE | Local thread that's been illuminating, uplifting and without being written in French |
