| SEASIDE | I Do Like to Be Beside the ___, popular music hall song written in 1907 (7) |
| MYOLDMAN | British music hall song written in 1919 (2,3,3) |
| ANYOLDIRON | Novel by Anthony Burgess that shares its title with a popular music-hall song |
| PIER | Food found on top of resort's attraction for those who do like to be beside the seaside (4) |
| CANCAN | Popular music-hall and French cabaret dance originating in the 1840s (3-3) |
| POINT | Beside the ___; irrelevant |
| FOOTTHEBILL | Settle what the not so popular music-hall entertainer must do? |
| EXCEPTION | "Everyone delights to spend their summer's holiday; Down beside the side of the silvery sea; I'm no ... to the rule," sang Florrie Forde. "I do love to be beside the seaside" |
| INTENSE | Great to be at home - anxious to be beside (7) |
| DECIMAL | Claimed for building and home; it could be beside the point (7,5) |
| GEORGIA | - on My Mind, song written in 1930 and most famously recorded by Ray Charles 30 years later (7) |
| PARAPET | Do like to put in some defensive work |
| DOLIKE | I ___ to Be Beside the Seaside, music hall song (6) |
| MATILDA | Australian folk song written in 1895 by Banjo Patterson (8,7) |
| MIDWIFE | Call the ___, popular period drama, back for a Christmas special on 25 December (7) |
| IRKSOME | Irritating as a smoker could be, beside one (7) |
| SETASIDE | Besides which, I do like to be singing about Tottenham's first reserve (3,5) |
| KILLING | The _, popular Danish drama which starred Sofie Grabol (7) |
| INASTEW | Where beef and dumplings may be beside oneself? |
| GERARDDEPARDIEU | French actor who once said: "I'm happy with very little on this earth, but I do like to have a lot in my glass" (6,9) |