| BLOCKBUSTERS | Old Bob Holness game show (12) |
| ASHFORD | Kent town where Sir Malcolm Sargent and Bob Holness were both born (7) |
| BOB | Blockbusters legend, - - - Holness (3) |
| AUSTIN | First name of carper 'Oz' Holness (*is tuna!) (6) |
| MARENGHI | Garth ___, comedy character co-created and played by Matthew Holness, winner of the 2001 Perrier Awa |
| NICOLE | Holness who was a member of the Canadian group X-quisite |
| SECRETAGENTS | Old Bob organises Crete brokers with plants (6,6) |
| NURSERYMAIDS | Taking these tenders off New York, old Bob married us |
| SOUTHEASTERN | Old Bob from Louth loses head on nearest train going in opposite direction to north-western point (5 |
| MAKEANESCAPE | Take flight, as mother sounds keen on old Bob Hook (4,2,6) |
| SEESTHELIGHT | Realises the error of one's way in rant about Old Bob - a traffic controller (4,3,5) |
| ABSENTEEBALLOTS | They give prisoners a say in country with old landlord, for one, with show of hands for old Bob (8,7 |
| SCANNING | Glancing at Old Bob, an old prime minister (8) |
| LOUISXIV | One of the old Kings from Lima is in Paris? Yes, with Old Bob Cross - the one with Victor! (5,3) |
| STONEWORK | The Masons are presumably proud of this Old Bob, an old revolutionary joining Labour (9) |
| BOASTER | Old Bob wearing a straw hat is a show-off (7) |
| SPRAWL | Old Bob from Puerto Rico makes hole in lounge (6) |
| SPECS | Lawyer admits exercise has old Bob for reading detail (5) |
| SCUM | Old Bob with classical folk most people would despise (4) |
| CHANSON | Song in church soon enthralling old Bob (7) |
