| PEAKE | Maxine, English actress who played Twinkle in the TV sitcom Dinnerladies (5) |
| MAXINE | - - - Peake, actress who played Twinkle in Dinnerladies (6) |
| CANTEEN | Is adolescent able to find setting for TV sitcom dinnerladies? (7) |
| CELIA | Actress who was in sitcom dinnerladies, ----- Imrie (5) |
| STARS | These twinkle in the sky when the sun goes down (5) |
| IMRIE | A crime I lie about to actor in sitcom dinnerladies (5,5) |
| GLINT | Word for a sudden slip, slide or oblique movement first, later a bright gleam, brief indication, momentary flash or a twinkle in the eye (5) |
| GLEAM | Twinkle in the eye |
| BLINK | Twinkle in second-class bond |
| WOOD | Late comedian who wrote the sitcom Dinnerladies, Victoria _ (4) |
| EMERALD | “A livelier ____ twinkles in the grass, / A purer sapphire melts into the sea” (Tennyson, in Maud) |
| DAYSTAR | Does this twinkle in the light? (3-4) |
| STAR | This twinkles in the night sky (4) |
| ANNEREID | English actress whose TV roles have included Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street, Jean in Dinnerladies and Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax |
| BAABAA | Words sung on the same notes as "twinkle," in a different nursery rhyme |
| ORWASI | Question that might be asked with a twinkle in your eye |
| STARGAZES | Gets a twinkle in one's eyes? |
| REID | Anne ____ played Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street and Jean in Dinnerladies |
| TWINKLE | Younger canteen worker played by Maxine Peake in Dinnerladies (7) |
| DUNN | Andrew, actor who played canteen manager Tony Martin in Dinnerladies (4) |
