| DUCKBOARDS | Nothing on the stage but planks (10) |
| ENACTED | Was formerly on the stage, but was forced out (7) |
| ASTONESTHROW | Saw Mick Jagger chuck something from the stage - but it didn't go far (1,6,5) |
| MARIONETTE | On stage but strings attached (10) |
| OSCARWILDE | Writer who quipped "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" |
| TRAMPOLINE | The hobo has nothing on the line but a jumper perhaps |
| JOJORABBIT | James the First gets nothing on the first of January with a bunny - yet they made a movie about it (4,6) |
| BILLOFFARE | Twice Dicky's gone inside with nothing on the menu |
| DEPOSITORY | Trustee to lay down nothing on the line |
| PROMPTBOOK | Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience (10) |
| BEHINDTHESCENES | May affect the action on stage, but took a back seat (6,3,6) |
| CASTIGATE | I act on stage but they chastise me |
| ACTING | On stage, but only temporarily it would seem (6) |
| BUTTERUP | Flatter "poor, little" woman on stage but get caught out (6,2) |
| NOISESOFF | What's made by no one on stage, but just outside, so very loud? |
| ACTUP | Fill another's place, at some stage, but may behave badly (3,2) |
| AGITATES | Call it a stage but in a way it disturbs me (8) |
| DROSS | The doctor has nothing on the ship but waste material (5) |
| ORANGE | Nothing on the stove but fruit |
| ORDERED | Told there's nothing on the road but wild deer |
