| STRINGFELLOW | Peter _, English nightclub owner who passed away in 2018 (12) |
| DALE | Mr Winton, former National Lottery host who passed away in 2018 (4) |
| CABARET | Court maintaining a ban on English nightclub floor show (7) |
| JEFFMACNELLY | Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who passed away in June |
| ROS | Edmundo ?, Trinidad-born bandleader and nightclub owner who died in 2011 |
| BLACK | Nightclub owner who was framed by enemy Fergus Collins in Hollyoaks (5,5) |
| GRACE | And 29A Nightclub owner who was framed by enemy Fergus Collins in Hollyoaks (5,5) |
| RUBY | Jack ---, nightclub owner who shot Lee Harvey Oswald |
| ALLEN | Ruby _, former Walford nightclub owner who had a son with the late Martin Fowler (5) |
| PEARS | Peter ___, English tenor who created the role of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera The Tu |
| BOGART | Actor who played nightclub owner Rick in Casablanca (6) |
| KELLNER | Peter ___, English journalist and political commentator who was President of YouGov from 2007 to 2016 |
| HUMPHREYBOGART | He plays nightclub owner Rick Blaine in Casablanca (8,6) |
| OOSTERHUIS | Peter ___, English golfer; 1971-74 Order of Merit winner (10) |
| ACKROYD | Peter ___, English biographer, novelist and critic whose novels include Hawksmoor (7) |
| PIPER | Peter ____ , English language nursery rhyme and alliterative tongue-twister (5) |
| CROUCH | Peter _, English former striker for Liverpool and Stoke City (6) |
| SHAFFER | Peter _, English dramatist whose plays included Amadeus (1979) (7) |
| EBDON | Peter _, English winner of the 2002 World Snooker Championship (5) |
| LEEHARVEY | The alleged killer of President John F Kennedy, ... Oswald, was himself executed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in November, 1963 (3,6) |