| SUPPRESSION | Keeping down of the newspapers surrounded in opus such as this (11) |
| CLASSICALGAFFE | Result of mishearing the title of a venerable opus (such as the *clue answers) - OR, mishearing of the title of a 1968 Mason Williams hit |
| OPPRESSOR | Tyrant of the newspapers restricted by poor circulation (9) |
| HUSHUP | Keep out of the newspapers |
| FLEETSTREET | Formerly the epicentre of the newspaper industry in London (5,6) |
| GIRODITALIA | Cycle race first organised in 1909 to increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport |
| FALLEN | "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them", from Laurence Binyon's poem For The ___. (6) |
| EIDER | Sea duck of the northern hemisphere valued for the soft fine down of the female |
| CURRENTEVENTS | Component of some social studies classes, or the name of the newspaper sporting the headlines in this puzzle? |
| LYSIS | The breaking down of the membrane of a cell, often by viral, enzymic or osmotic mechanisms (5) |
| UXORICIDE | Eternal put-down of the Dutch in London |
| DUVET | A soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider (5) |
| PORTEND | Presage the closing down of the harbour (7) |
| MINIMISATION | Insomnia - I'm struggling with it, keeping down as much as possible (12) |
| OINK | OK surrounded in a sound of the country (4) |
| HEADLINE | The words in big, black letters on the front page of the newspaper that let everybody know what the article is all about |
| OPPRESSION | The act of suppressing or keeping down |
| PASADENA | Ebbing, a tide keeping down in California city (8) |
| KRAKOW | Yank regularly featuring in opus about Polish city (6) |
| WORDBOOK | Finally found surprising expression in opus that's akin to dictionary (8) |
