| SUPERMARINESPITFIRE | Fighter aircraft, built from 19381948, which played leading role during World War II (11,8) |
| DEPARTED | Left role during Act |
| MYSTERIES | Crime fiction in which priests classically played leading role |
| GANDHI | Indian spinner who played leading role in getting England out |
| SPRUCE | --- Goose, a massive World War II aircraft built entirely of wood due to wartime restrictions on metals, flown only once (6) |
| ILLSTARRED | Doomed state briefly played leading role |
| STARRED | Played leading role and looked about right (7) |
| ROBERTPATTINSON | English screen actor who played leading roles in Tenet and the Twilight films (6,9) |
| TORNADO | Twin-engine combat aircraft, built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, retired by the RAF in April (7) |
| AVOCET | 1920s single-engined naval fighter prototype aircraft, built by Avro (6) |
| THEGANGOFFOUR | Chinese political faction which played a key role in the Cultural Revolution (3,4,2,4) |
| SNAKE | Creature which played an important role in religious and cultural life in ancient Greece and Egypt (5) |
| SPY | One of Harriet Tubman's roles during the Civil War |
| SST | Aircraft built to travel faster than Mach 1, for short |
| PORTRUSH | Royal ..., which played host to the British Open for the first time since 1951 in 2019. (8) |
| THEBES | City in central Greece which played an important part in Greek mythology (6) |
| SPITFIRE | The Supermarine ---, a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the RAF during World War II (8) |
| MESSERSCHMITT | In World War II, which company made the fastest fighter aircraft, known as the Komet? (13) |
| BOMBER | A military aircraft built for bombing (6) |
| VERONICALAKE | U.S. actress born 1922 known for her femme fatale roles during the 1940's (8,4) |
