| GETINONTHEACT | Have a role to play, at some stage (3,2,2,3,3) |
| APART | Have a role to play, at some stage, although separate (5) |
| ACTIN | Have a role to play |
| SETAPART | Made special group have a role to play (3,5) |
| ACT | Have a role to play |
| PUMPKIN | Winter squash with a big role to play at Halloween (7) |
| DRAMA | Did one have a little drink first, to play at some stage (5) |
| CHARACTERPART | One stroke of a Chinese brush perhaps has a role to play |
| ROLE | Had a part to play, at some stage (4) |
| SUBSTITUTE | One of several football players, eg, who sits on the bench hoping to play at some point (10) |
| DIRECTS | Guides one to organise a play, at some stage (7) |
| ASIDES | A team's involved in by-play, at some stage (6) |
| EXEUNT | They leave from being in play, at some stage (6) |
| VERGER | Some clever German has a role to play in church affairs (6) |
| PART | Some of the Thistle players had a role to play (4) |
| TRAP | Leave, in return, with a role to play. It's a conspiracy (4) |
| PARTRIDGE | Bird has a role to play on line of hills (9) |
| ACTOR | One who has a role to play |
| ESCALATOR | Staircase that moves cast having a role to play (9) |
| PULLSAPART | Strips down as Yank's got a role to play (5,5) |
