| ITSTHAT | ITMA, that ever-popular wartime radio show starring Tommy Handley, stood for ... Man Again (2'1,4) |
| THAT | ITMA, that ever-popular wartime radio show starring Tommy Handley, stood for It's ... Man Again |
| ITMA | 1939-1949 radio show starring Tommy Handley (init.) (1,1,1,1) |
| MASH | *It lead to a popular wartime comedy series |
| TIPPERARY | It's a Long Way to -, popular wartime ditty (9) |
| HANDLEY | Tommy ?, Liverpudlian comedian; star of BBC Radio show ITMA |
| ENCODED | Like wartime radio messages |
| CLASSIC | Ever-popular girl I spotted in some clubs |
| MRSMOPP | ITMA cleaning lady (3,4) |
| ITS | The title of the BBC radio show ITMA, which began in 1939, was an acronym taken from a Daily Express headline describing Hitler, "... that man again!" (2'1) |
| TRAIN | Jack, a comic actor who featured in BBC's wartime radio series ITMA (5) |
| TEDDYBEARS | "For every bear that ever there was; Will gather there for certain because; Today's the day the ... |
| CIACCO | Character in Dante's Divine Comedy "second to none that ever lived for inordinate gluttony" |
| SEA | 'We were the first that ever burst/Into that silent ___' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (1798) |
| ALVAR | What was the first name of wartime radio announcer Mr Lidell? (5) |
| SALE | Ever-popular attraction for consumers |
| HITMAN | It's that man again in "High Noon", the killer (6) |
| CHACHACHA | Dance with short man again and again |
| AMPERSAND | Spared man again and sign for it (9) |
| ADHERE | Follow a daughter with that man again (6) |
