| ORESTEIA | Others, into Old English, ripping up Greek plays |
| NOTEPADS | Stop dean ripping up these recording devices |
| EPITASIS | Central part of a classical Greek play, developing the main action and leading into the catastrophe (8) |
| ANTIGONE | Unfortunately, no agent will accept a single Greek play |
| ALCESTIS | Castle is prepared for Greek play |
| EQUIPOISE | English witticism is put into Old English for balance |
| ONEHORSERACE | Working on research into Old English? The others don't stand a chance! (3-5,4) |
| OVERSEE | Manage to put poetry into Old English |
| ORANGE | Called into old English house in the Netherlands (6) |
| ERNIEWISE | Els, we follow, is into old English comic (5,4) |
| ORATE | Traitor, into Old English, to give speech |
| OSSA | Old beast of burden going up Greek mountain |
| TRAG | Like some ancient Greek plays, briefly |
| SATYRS | Figures in ribald Greek plays |
| OGRE | Awesome character in two Greek plays |
| GELS | Upper-class women occasionally featured in Greek plays (4) |
| NOBBYSTILES | Footballing hard man ripping up Tyson's Bible (5,6) |
| PABULUM | Ripping up album - bland stuff |
| CROATIA | Pelt across river, ripping up land |
| PLAIDCYMRU | After ripping up my card, I left party (5,5) |
