| DOCUDRAMA | Genre of film or play based on a re-enactment of real-life events (9) |
| NOIR | Cynical crime genre of film or fiction (4) |
| REMASTER | Picture & sound redo on a re-released special edition DVD. |
| SCRIPT | Actor or actress' written text of film or play; or, a candidate's answer paper in an exam (6) |
| SOAPOPERA | Son of a promoter opens musical with diva from never-ending story of real-life events (4,5) |
| EUCHARIST | Christian re-enactment of the Last Supper (9) |
| ROADMOVIE | Genre of film in which the protagonist is on the run, or travelling in search of something (4,5) |
| MILESTONE | Word for a waymarker/guidepost indicating distances to the nearest town or village, also used figuratively to describe a significant life event (9) |
| SIMULATES | Convincingly recreates, a real-life event perhaps |
| OFPASSAGE | Produces text, we hear, about donkey in part of book - major life events (5,2,7) |
| RECORDIST | Member of film or TV crew (9) |
| PAINTBALL | War re-enactment in which one gets decorated? (9) |
| RELIEVE | Lessen intensity of real life events, all getting half-cut (7) |
| PREMIERES | First showings of films or plays |
| CLEF | Roman a _, literary genre where real-life events are overlaid with a facade of fiction (4) |
| SIMS | Emulations of real-life events that anagram to "miss": Abbr. |
| TOAD | Lead character of a 1929 A. A. Milne play based on a book by Kenneth Grahame (4) |
| NATIONALSERVICE | Ancestor in a live re-enactment of compulsory time in the military (8,7) |
| RECONSTRUCTION | Re-enactment of a past event (14) |
| ROMANSACLEF | Novels based on real-life events |
