| WARZONE | Cricketer outside his own country, spinning in theatre of combat (3,4) |
| DRAGRACE | Way to address legendary cricketer outside a sporting event |
| LANCING | Opening in theatre of the old school |
| TWINTUB | Put scoop in drum, spinning in this? |
| NICOSIA | Is a coin spinning in this island capital? |
| THEATRE | Globe, say, or Earth spinning in telescope's frame |
| RETRACT | Concerned with car spinning in Tourist Trophy, withdraw (7) |
| PLANETS | Objects spinning in an orrery |
| PATRIOT | Lover of one's own country (7) |
| EMIGRES | European fighter with most of others, those away from their own country (7) |
| TREASON | Betrayal of one's own country |
| KURDISH | Language spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia by the world's largest ethnic group without its own country (7) |
| OCONNOR | Josh, English actor whose films include God's Own Country and Mothering Sunday (7) |
| BORISPASTERNAK | Russian author whose Dr Zhivago was banned in his own country (5,9) |
| CHINA | I meet Chan in his own country (5) |
| BRECHT | Playwright's brother with genuine following in his own country (6) |
| EXILING | Banishing from own country |
| MORLEY | Actor who played Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette, the owner of toy poodles in Theatre of Blood and the title role in the 1960 biopic Oscar Wilde (6) |
| EMIGRE | One who leaves his own country |
| KLEE | This artist has a museum dedicated to his work outside his hometown of Bern. (4) |
