| ENTERTAINMENTS | Events or performances before audiences (14) |
| SWANSONG | What do we call a final appearance or performance before retirement? (4,4) |
| FESTIVAL | Season of concerts, events or performances such as the Proms or that held in 1951 to mark the centenary of the Great Exhibition (8) |
| ACTS | Performances before Romans (4) |
| TWISTINTHETALE | Unexpected turn of events - or in other words what it entitles (5,2,3,4) |
| CHATSWORTHHOUSE | Talks with couturier before audience at stately home (10,5) |
| ONSTAGE | Individual entertains male party before audience (2-5) |
| SPECTATOR | Witness putting King Edward on spot before audience? |
| EUPHORIA | Quartet addressed, before audience, elevated road transport |
| GOON | Peter Sellers, for one, to appear before audience |
| HOODOO | "Who" perform before audience for a spell (6) |
| SHRINKWRAPPED | Psychiatrist disciplined before audience, tightly packed (6-7) |
| REED | Oboe player's essential study before audience (4) |
| WAIVER | Letting go right before audience, person who flourishes |
| TIRINGHOUSE | Shy about going before audience in dressing room |
| FEAT | Great act with Cockney's plates before audience... (4) |
| SPOOKERY | Affairs or business relating to espionage or spies; or, a jocular word for creepy or eerie events or things (8) |
| DEBUT | 1st appearance as of a performance before an audience |
| THESWANSONG | Final performance before passing |
| ENCORE | Demand extra performance before being interrupted by corporal (6) |
