| PLAYACT | Perform on a stage or theatre (7) |
| SCENERY | Painted background on a stage or film set (7) |
| RELAY | A set of fresh horses or hounds to relieve others on a stage or a chase, hence a relief gang; or, a lap or leg of a race between teams of runners (5) |
| ACT | Perform on a stage, perhaps |
| ROSTRUM | A stage or dais on which a public speaker stands (7) |
| SNEAKON | Gain surreptitious access, as to a stage or ballot |
| ONSTAGE | Where players have to perform on a platform (2,5) |
| COMPACT | The Commanding Officer joins the politician to perform on a disc |
| GYMNAST | Athlete who performs on a balance beam or pommel horse |
| ENTRY | A door, passage or other ingress affording a way in; an act of going onto a stage or into a building, competition or race; or, an item recorded in a diary, dictionary, ledger, list or log (5) |
| VARIETY | A form of TV or theatre entertainment having different acts, e.g. singing and comedy (7) |
| ACTRESS | Female film star or theatre performer(7) |
| MUSICAL | Film or theatre production where characters burst into song (7) |
| FLEAPIT | Shabby cinema or theatre, informally (7) |
| ARTFORM | Tram for travelling to view sculpture or theatre, perhaps (3,4) |
| APROPOS | A thing put on a stage of large proportions is relevant (7) |
| TABLEAU | Silent, motionless depiction of a scene on a stage |
| YANKEES | 1950s film based on a stage musical, Damn ------- (7) |
| ARSENIC | 1944 film comedy starring Cary Grant based on a stage play by Joseph Kesselring (7,3,3,4) |
| CHARING | '84, - Cross Road', 1987 film based on a stage play by James Rooseevans (7) |
