| ATTHETOP | Matthew's part to play -- no amateur in novel room (2,3,3) |
| PROSIT | No amateur, in short, to go in for examination good luck! (6) |
| ALUNOWEN | British screenwriter whose works include television play No Trams to Lime Street and film A Hard Day |
| HUISCLOS | French name for Jean-Paul Sartre's play 'No Exit' (4,4) |
| RUNSOVER | Reviews when the play's no longer showing (4,4) |
| SITSBACK | Plays no further part, being partly chastised by implication? (4,4) |
| DONOGHUE | Emma, Irish-Canadian author who wrote the novel Room (8) |
| VEGETATE | Get amateur in to check echo in lounge (8) |
| REPROACH | Manage to get to non-amateur in disapproval (8) |
| PROFOUND | No amateur discovered to be intense (8) |
| PROROGUE | No amateur baddy to hold off for a while |
| PENALISE | Referee's job to do for Lise and Penelope with amateur in middle (8) |
| GRANTHAM | Allowance given to amateur in town (8) |
| PROCURES | Gets hold of no amateur remedies |
| PROPOSER | No amateur puzzle, I'd suggest (8) |
| PROTESTS | No amateur games cause objections (8) |
| PROBABLE | No amateur, Welsh footballer pockets first of bonuses? That's likely (8) |
| PROPOSED | Suggested no amateur be given the position (8) |
| PLAYBILL | Theatre poster shows amateur in lead unfavourably (8) |
| BOTTOM | In 1.2, as the play-within-a-play is ramping up, Peter Quince says: "You can play no part but Pyramus: for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man." Who is he talking to? |
