| PETER | Old midfielder's fancy repertoire includes last minute headers (5,7) |
| LORIMER | Old midfielder's fancy repertoire includes last minute headers (5,7) |
| ASHER | Actress turned patissier who was engaged to Paul McCartney in the Sixties; her film repertoire includes The Greengage Summer, Alfie and The Buttercup Chain (5) |
| ASHTON | Founder-choreographer of the Royal Ballet, whose repertoire includes Facade, La Fille mal gardee and A Month in the Country (6) |
| STREEP | Actress whose repertoire includes a devilish editor-in-chief, an iron PM, a suffragette, a Victorian woman of mystery and the world's worst "diva" (6) |
| UNDERTAKINGS | Headers |
| AIMS | Headers from Arsenal's influential midfielders scoring goals (4) |
| MISTAKES | Matisse composition includes last of black bloomers |
| OMEGA | Home game includes last in a series (5) |
| LISZT | Inventory includes last character, a composer (5) |
| UNISON | One like GTU includes last of teachers in agreement (6) |
| DENIGRATE | Rubbish retained includes last of festering trash (9) |
| MEUM | Genus of the herb, spignel - mother includes last of borage (4) |
| CROTCHET | Note handicraft includes last of quilt (8) |
| RHODESIA | Old country broadcast set up to include last of such poems |
| HAZARD | Brazil's midfielders impede tough premiership footballer (6) |
| STEP | Central midfielders sent off in costly action |
| ELDER | Respected figure among midfielders (5) |
| EIGHTY | Showing strength, English replacing top midfielders, score four times (6) |
| LEAVENING | Going to include last bits of the corn (baking ingredient) (9) |