| SAMSHEPARD | Playwright giving way to bad hams before curtain goes up (3,7) |
| TENNESSEE | Playwright giving description of Venus to the audience! (9,8) |
| POINTER | Playwright giving a home to old dog |
| MARLOWE | Playwright giving Brando detailed directions |
| CHEQUEBOOK | Restraint heard before arrest, largely giving way to plastic (6,4) |
| IGNORANTLY | Bishop giving way to tirade, dishonourably, displaying lack of knowledge (10) |
| SHUTUPSHOP | Close outcome with time giving way to pressure in the end -- synonymous with 12 and 25 (4,2,4) |
| SUBMISSION | Possible voyage under the polar ice that's giving way |
| SHOWTIME | Point to what Indians say prisoners do when the curtain goes up (8) |
| ACTI | It starts when the curtain goes up |
| ACTONE | It's seen after the curtain goes up |
| NATURE | Grown-up maiden giving way to knight in essence (6) |
| ROADRAGE | Motorists' anger giving way to change of gear (4,4) |
| CONCEIT | Vanity's restrained opening giving way to ego in performance (7) |
| SPICINESS | Heat of spring almost giving way to cold (9) |
| CHIVALRY | Courtesy in competition with leader giving way to companion |
| EXCIDED | Cut off old-style pledge, upset (at giving way to crude signature?) |
| CITYFARM | I'm crafty, deceptively giving way to husband in town |
| ASPIRANT | Candidate requires painkiller, one giving way to a temperature |
| HALLYON | Caught giving way to large, carefree lout |
