| SPARKLE | Cooked kelp's captured the heart of Gary Glitter (7) |
| ILIAC | Before Bill entered, ones captured the heart of Helen of Troy (5) |
| WHITEADMIRAL | Butterfly has a holiday, having captured the heart of Pinkerton, a naval officer (5,7) |
| TAHITI | Pacific island captured the heart of Utah itinerants (6) |
| ESSENCE | There was a scene in the last movie I saw, set in Sidmouth, which really captured the flavour of the place (7) |
| GOLDMAN | Debut of Gary Oldman: "Red Emma" (7) |
| THESEUS | Mythical murderer of the maze-dwelling monstrous Minotaur who also captured the Marathonian Bull (7) |
| RITA | She has captured the hearts of myriad titans |
| BRIGAND | The bandit gang has captured the equipment (7) |
| SIGNETS | There's a sign the little alien's captured the small seals (7) |
| VIOLENT | Wild flower captured the centre of attention (7) |
| CALUMET | Illinois city outside of Gary |
| DOYENNE | Old poet captured the old leading lady (7) |
| SCATTER | Animal captured, the rest wandering about disperse (7) |
| RANGERS | Texas ___ captured the World Series (7) |
| WRESTED | Pulled it off. We had captured the others (7) |
| TURNOFF | Lose interest when big shot captured the Ashes (4,3) |
| GLAM | Style of rock music popularised in the early 1970s by Slade, Gary Glitter and Roxy Music (4) |
| ROCKANDROLL | 1972 Gary Glitter single in two parts that reached number two in the UK chart |
| OLDMAN | Surname of Gary, star of the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (6) |
