| SCHEMERS | Plan of action writing introduction to screenplay with those crafty types in the plot (8) |
| DOCKYARD | Prepares crafty types in court and in prison (8) |
| DAHLIA | Review had fairly lied about introduction by Mexican type in the plot (6) |
| NAUTICALMILE | It's a measure of crafty type in the distance synonymous with The Fleet (8,4) |
| ASTRAL | Crafty types in American city all make a comeback like the stars (6) |
| SPARTAN | Frugal crafty type in The Bridge (7) |
| MIRROR | Surrealist admits writing introduction to religious paper (6) |
| USERADAR | Employ speed-reader perhaps to take liberties with advertisement after writing introductions and rechecking (3,5) |
| ADAPT | Convert from book to screenplay, maybe |
| FANTASTICBEASTS | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| CYPRESS | Screenplays, with no elan? Could be just a conifer (7) |
| ROADTONOWHERE | A lack of direction perhaps in writing introductions outlining Alexis De Tocqueville's oeuvre from 22 across (4,2,7) |
| PAINTERS | The ropes employed by those crafty types of people who put a coat on at work? (8) |
| ARTICLES | Crafty type in charge at the French AA? (8) |
| TRIREMES | Has a go at covering up type of sleep produced by old Roman crafty types (8) |
| MENOFWAR | RAF women flying with old crafty types employed overseas in a battle (3-2-3) |
| RECREANT | Record is about worker - the type in the past disloyal to a belief (8) |
| AIRSHOW | Do a job in The Station for one of those crafty types making a spectacle in Sky (3,4) |
| DIPTYCHS | Ditch spy moving crafty types behind the wooden doors (8) |
| SUBMARINES | Those crafty types under a lot of pressure in public transport upset going to unusual seminar (10) |
