| WHEREVER | In any place, centre forward is present volleying the first, heading the second and striking the third (8) |
| NEMOME | Submarine captain to attack (you might say) on a shoestring in trouble with it, according to the Thi |
| EXPERT | Next centre forward is a skilled performer (6) |
| ASHBURNHAM | -- Place, centre for Christian retreats etc near Battle in East Sussex (10) |
| ZOOM | Chaotic place, centre for human race |
| REPLETE | Religious teaching place, centre's regularly full |
| MAINTAIN | Keep important container around place's centre (8) |
| THIRSTY | Dry river passing through current place (middle of factory yard) (7) |
| MINOR | Of a musical scale, having a semitone interval between the second and third degrees, and the fifth and sixth (5) |
| ADAMS | The surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States (5) |
| PRINCECHARMING | Character voiced by Rupert Everett in the second and third films of the Shrek franchise (2004, 2007) (6,8) |
| BUCCAL | Facial nerve that supplies sensation to the inner and outer cheek and the 2nd and 3rd molars (6) |
| STEPHENSONDHEIM | Musical legend who died on November 26. In the late '60s, he wrote British-style crosswords, which often include anagrams, for this magazine; each of our theme plays is an anagram of his name (and thi |
| ELEVON | Is on the plane - new experience first heading up! |
| ARMADILLO | The Andean stringed instrument called the churango was traditionally made from the hard shell of thi |
| BRICOLE | In billiards, a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball before touching another ball (7) |
| LICENCE | The second and last appearance of Timothy Dalton as James Bond was in 1989's ... To Kill |
| KIM | The second and current actress to play Sam Mitchell in EastEnders (3,7) |
| MEDCALF | The second and current actress to play Sam Mitchell in EastEnders (3,7) |
| CORINTH | City of ancient Greece to which the second and third of the New Testament's Pauline epistles are addressed (7) |
