| CARTOON | Nothing should interrupt the box showing The Simpsons, for example (7) |
| ARMHOLES | Nothing should interrupt Mahler's elaborate openings |
| PET | Snowball II the cat on "The Simpsons," for example |
| YOKEL | Cletus on "The Simpsons," for example |
| HEADSET | One covers the ears as commercials interrupt the opera in the middle, horribly |
| WITLESS | The French interrupt the wags, it's daft (7) |
| LECTURE | Time to interrupt the French priest making speech? (7) |
| DISTURB | Interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle. (7) |
| NUCLEAR | Extremely undemocratic to interrupt the development of nearly green power generation (7,6) |
| RIPOSTE | Nothing interrupts the strange priest making a quick reply (7) |
| HECKLER | Hell, the French king is someone who interrupts the speaker (7) |
| SLAYING | The apprentice interrupts the saw killing (7) |
| PLATOON | The squad also interrupts the scheme (7) |
| DISRUPT | Interrupt the progress of (7) |
| CUTINTO | Interrupt the course of how to divide a cake in two, say (3,4) |
| SKINFUL | A lot of booze going below interrupts the brain endlessly (7) |
| CUTAWAY | A shot in film or TV that interrupts the main action (7) |
| LEAGUES | Fever interrupts the French classes (7) |
| SODA | Buzz Cola from "The Simpsons," for one |
| DMV | Patty and Selma's workplace on "The Simpsons," for short |
