| ANAEMIC | Looking pale after a cinema's shot (7) |
| EISENSTEIN | Man of the cinema shot tennis, I see |
| ANIME | Japanese cartoon cinema shot without opening credits (5) |
| FEATURE | A prominent article or story in a newspaper; or, the main full-length film in a cinema's programme (7) |
| ELAPSED | Passed by Des, pale after coming back (7) |
| TRAINER | A series of short extracts from a film, used to advertise it in a cinema or on television (7) |
| ARMREST | Seat separator in a cinema (7) |
| POPCORN | Spooner sees "Starsky and Hutch Investigate Lustful Lucy", a cinema favourite (7) |
| DRIVEIN | A facility, such as a cinema, that one can visit without leaving one's car (5,2) |
| FLEAPIT | There's a cinema showing ET, if pal can make it (7) |
| BACKROW | Place for romance in a cinema (4,3) |
| EVERYWHIT | Extremely pale after final letter goes to the front? Totally! |
| GNAW | Turn pale after ghost's beginning to cause anxiety |
| TYPE | Sort of thirsty and pale after vacation (4) |
| SWANUPPING | Pale, after engaging in drinking, doing work on the Thames |
| IANMCEWAN | Novelist looks pale after cinema rebuilt (3,6) |
| ASTORIA | Former music venue in London's Charing Cross Road that opened as a cinema in 1927 and closed in 2009 |
| AMNESIAC | A cinema's refurbished I can't remember (8) |
| ASHEN | A soprano later with head covered looking pale (5) |
| ASHY | Yup, mum's inside looking pale |