| LASTHURRAH | In a stroke, Thu-Sun idol nails Ruddigore's opening and final act (4,6) |
| SABREDANCE | Movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet Gayane that gave Love Sculpture a hit single in the UK in 1968 |
| DENOUEMENT | Attack has knight plus a hundred bumped off in the final act (10) |
| DEATHMASKS | Casts made for The Dead in final act cover-ups (5,5) |
| FRACTIONAL | Incomplete final act or composition (10) |
| DRIVE | Conclude a bargain in a stroke (5) |
| ILLLUCK | Kill off Frenchman in a stroke of misfortune (3,4) |
| CARELESSNESS | Perhaps both parents' loss of lenses, cracked in a stroke |
| CLEAR | Spooner could polish off this limerick writer, son, in a stroke! (5,4) |
| SOUP | Spooner could polish off this limerick writer, son, in a stroke! (5,4) |
| WIDESCOPE | Plenty of opportunity to crack the codes in a stroke (4,5) |
| PAYOUT | Reward solver in a stroke |
| ERSE | Language in which "Hello, how are you?" is "Halo, ciamar a tha thu?" |
| GAELIC | In which "Ciamar a tha thu?" means "How are you?" |
| FRI | It's between Thu. and Sat. |
| DAILY | On Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun |
| YEST | Wed. vis-a-vis Thu. |
| NOV | Its fourth Thu. is a holiday |
| SEP | Tet Trung Thu month, in 2023 (Abbr.) |
| LACTATE | In magician's final act, a teapot will produce milk |
