| PLAYON | Continue performing, as a band |
| TRANSACT | Perform with a man performing as a woman? |
| DRAGQUEEN | One performing as a woman putting burden on man |
| OBERON | Bore about performing as a supernatural ruler (6) |
| DAMON | Mother performing as a legendary friend |
| ACTING | Performing as a substitute for another? (6) |
| FALCON | Eccentric calf performing as a bird (6) |
| ENTERTAINER | Retrain teen performing as a comic, perhaps |
| SLIPON | Mistake, performing as a shoe |
| LOCATOR | Behold actor performing as a tracker |
| DOING | Performing as a swindler? (5) |
| ENDYMION | Deny struggling with Melancholy and Indolence initially, performing as a handsome youth |
| ACROBATIC | Short book Croatia translated, about performing as a gymnast (9) |
| WALE | A stripe/whip mark on the skin; or, something else raised, such as a band around a woven basket; a corduroy rib; a knitted row; a ridge of a horse's collar; or, a strake of a wooden ship (4) |
| RIBBON | A taenia of satin or silk etc with which to make a cockade, fillet or rosette; or, something strip-like, such as a band-saw or a mollusc's radula (6) |
| ACTON | Historian told to continue performing (5) |
| PRESSON | Continue performing after reporters (5,2) |
| ROCKON | Continue performing with Diamond |
| SOLDIERON | Continue performing after infantryman |
| CARRYON | Continue performing after horror novel's recited |
