| FELLINI | Italian film director a learner in life perhaps (7) |
| ALFREDHITCHCOCK | Film director, a large fellow, embarrassed by difficulty with bird (6,9) |
| EISENSTEIN | Film director a genius to include heartless scene (10) |
| ADAMANT | Unyielding director, a fellow in middle of path (7) |
| SELLARS | Peter -, US theatre director; a 2014 recipient of the Polar Music Prize (7) |
| EMIGRES | Seekers of a better life, perhaps |
| NUPTIAL | Put a learner in trouble about a wedding (7) |
| COPPOLA | Italian film director (7) |
| CONGEAL | Permission to leave a learner in set (7) |
| CALORIE | A learner in cold Oxford college ultimately denied a bit of heat |
| FALLOUT | Show contempt for a learner in consequence (7) |
| CHORALE | Tedious task to accommodate a learner in sung composition (7) |
| CUREALL | Panacea for a learner in cruel confusion (4-3) |
| ARSENIC | Football club leaving a learner in charge? This may be fatal |
| BIRTHSTONE | The Britons in life perhaps at other end of gravestone (10) |
| BOY | Blue peg in Life, perhaps |
| SENTENCE | Awareness after losing heart in life, perhaps (8) |
| STREAK | Demi Moore's first film as a director, a short starring her daughter Rumer Willis |
| DOLCE | Sweet Italian life, perhaps, getting a cent on benefits (5) |
| RENECLAIR | French director, a pioneer of early silent comedy films |
