| MELBOURNECUP | Gibson, the actor, and bouncer, turned up for Australian horse race (9,3) |
| EJECTOR | I retired in Provence, lacking aspiration to play the bully and bouncer |
| RSA | Some bangers and mash served up for Australian bartenders' course (3) |
| MARSUPIAL | False alarm is up for Australian native (9) |
| ORSON | First name of the actor and director remembered for Citizen Kane and his radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds (5) |
| ESSEX | David, the actor and singer who was born with the surname Cook (5) |
| NEDKELLY | 19th-century Australian horse and cattle thief and bushranger (3,5) |
| BETTERLOOSENUP | 1990 Japan Cup winner and 1991 Australian Horse of the Year (6,6,2) |
| PASSION | Film directed by Mel Gibson, The ------- of the Christ (7) |
| MATTS | Dillon the actor and Dillon the marshal |
| SEGALS | George the actor and George the sculptor |
| OESTROGEN | What makes a female regularly covet Seth, the actor and comedian |
| MOLIERE | How the actor and playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was known (7) |
| KELLY | Ned, Australian horse and cattle thief hanged in 1880 (5) |
| MRT | Bouncer-turned-actor |
| CORDONBLEU | Old bouncer turned into top chef (6,4) |
| ALTHEA | Ms. Gibson, the first Black woman tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in 1956. |
| ALMAARAD | 1990 Australian Horse of the Year (8) |
| OCTAGONAL | 1996 Australian Horse of the Year (9) |
| PARTCOMPANY | Separate some of the actors and actresses (4,7) |
