| THEATRE | Erect heat-resistant covering for the stage (7) |
| TARP | Rain-resistant covering |
| TARPS | Rain-resistant coverings |
| INSTARS | The term used for the stages that the housefly larvae must go through before reaching the pupal stage |
| SCENERY | A different screen at the end of May for the stage backdrop (7) |
| FUNERAL | Posthumous Joe Orton 1968 ITV play adapted for the stage in 1970 (7,5) |
| ACTABLE | Appropriate for the stage |
| FORMICA | Heat-resistant, wipe clean, plastic laminate invented in 1912 (7) |
| ASHTRAY | Hot inside wide heat-resistant receptacle (7) |
| INCONEL | Nickel-based heat-resistant alloy (7) |
| PLAY | From the Old English meaning "to exercise", "brisk movement" and related to the Middle Dutch "leap for joy, dance", a dramatic work for the stage; or, activity for amusement (4) |
| MILNE | Adapter of The Wind in the Willows for the stage (5) |
| WRIGHT | Doug, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the stage play I Am My Own Wife (6) |
| ANTHESIS | Word, from the Greek for "to blossom" or "to bloom", for the stage when a flower burgeons from gloom (8) |
| THEATRICAL | Many in the entrances left for the stage (10) |
| THEFORSYTESAGA | Fiction adapted, say, for the stage (3,7,4) |
| BEGGARSOPERA | Prose garbage, rewritten for the stage? (7,5) |
| SPLAYS | Turns out the first of Shakespeare's works for the stage (6) |
| FOOTLIGHT | The infantry are short of illumination for the stage (9) |
| COMEDY | Arrive on the day without a funny piece for the stage (6) |
