| LEANONME | Pic about a principal |
| POOCHPERFECT | Pic about a singing pack? |
| CHAPLIN | Robert Downey Jr played the title role in the bio-pic about this silent film comedy great |
| ITONYA | 2017 black-comedy bio-pic about an Olympic figure skater |
| LEAD | A stick of graphite in a pencil; the axial distance advanced by a screw in one revolution; or, a principal role (4) |
| TRILL | In music, a rapid alternation between a principal note and the note a tone or semitone above it (5) |
| STAPLE | Wool fibre; its length or quality; or, from "market", a word for a principal commodity or a basic element/food (6) |
| AHEAD | A principal in a winning position (5) |
| THEME | A principal melodic subject in a musical composition |
| DOMINANT | Word of warning about minister, a principal (8) |
| OCEAN | A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. |
| RALPH | "When I grow up, I wanna be a principal or a caterpillar" speaker on "The Simpsons" |
| CANTO | Is able to produce a principal part of a long poem |
| XENIAONATOPP | Kiss record about one in North America relating to a principal character (5,7) |
| STAGEHERO | At one point, a classical girl turned into a principal boy (5,4) |
| AMAIN | A principal electrical cable at full speed as a poet |
| HEADLINE | A principal left in Europe heard a short news item on TV, say (8) |
| SERIF | Short decorative foot at the end of a principal stroke of a letter, as in typography and calligraphy (5) |
| METEOR | Any one of the shooting stars or fireballs collectively falling as a shower from a principal radiant (6) |
| ANTIHERO | A principal character in a fictional work who lacks noble qualities (8) |
