| DISCREDITING | Record for writing and working on film is giving someone a bad name (12) |
| RUNOFTHEMILL | Playing Luther on film is quite mundane |
| BARBARA | Romantic novelist who earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for writing 26 books in 1983 (7,8) |
| CARTLAND | Romantic novelist who earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for writing 26 books in 1983 (7,8) |
| ATTACK | What you'd expect 11 down to do to give someone a bad press (6) |
| MONTEVIDEO | Three-card trick on film is capital |
| FALLONONESSWORD | Own up about everyone working and working on command, be responsible and quit (4,2,4,5) |
| STOPATNOTHING | Be ruthless and smart, securing work and working on that (4,2,7) |
| STRATEGIST | A person skilled in planning and working on the best course to take (10) |
| SUBTITLING | Working on film, but it needs translation? Shy about that |
| SCENARIST | One working on film canisters getting sacked (9) |
| DISCIPLINING | Giving someone a rocket in a field of study briefly popular with Heisenberg's Foundation (12) |
| TAKEFORARIDE | Deceive (by giving someone a lift?) (4,3,1,4) |
| REASSIGNMENT | Act of giving someone a new job to do |
| TYINGTHEKNOT | Giving someone a ring? |
| DISREPUTABLE | Having a bad name but pride, sale being arranged for it (12) |
| STAINEDGLASS | Church feature that gives publican a bad name? (7,5) |
| AMANDAGORMAN | The Hill We Climb poet who teaches a MasterClass on writing and performing poetry: 2 wds. |
| LEXICOGRAPHY | The art of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries (12) |
| CLAPPING | Pat and Peig heard with first generation giving someone a big hand (8) |
