| STARTS | Opens and among the top performers is tiptop (6) |
| DOPE | The same top performer is a fool |
| ACE | Top performer is one in suit (3) |
| ONRECORD | Label detailing performers is officially noted (2,6) |
| MATERIALIST | Cloth is tiptop if one is concerned with worldly things (11) |
| DUE | Short composition for two performers is expected (3) |
| BASSIST | Fish is tiptop for this musician (7) |
| SISLEY | Parisian-born Impressionist noted for landscapes including Fog, Voisins, Avenue of Chestnut Trees at La Celle-Saint-Cloud and Among the Vines Louveciennes (6) |
| ALTHEA | 1st black to win French and US Opens, and Wimbledon, _ Gibson (6) |
| REPENT | Be sorry about the top performer who finally went |
| EPILOG | Two records one in Rome opens and one in Washington concludes (6) |
| MUNGU | He is a rain deity, and, among the Pygmies, he is a creator god who sometimes seems to be a first ancestor and sometimes a cultural hero. What is his name? |
| CHAMPS | Many chaps are out to be top performers (6) |
| RISQUE | Some performer is questioned as being liable to shock? (6) |
| MEDIUM | Seance performer is average (6) |
| OWES | Is in the red, and among the lowest (4) |
| COSTAR | Actors desperate to appear with top performers |
| PECKED | Lightly kissed top performers to check out electronic data, initially |
| OAKHAM | Certainly poor performer is touring a county town |
| STATUE | What a perfectly still street performer is imitating |
