| PREPAREDTOACT | Resolute as drama students are (8,2,3) |
| YALIES | Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke as drama students |
| ASSEMBLYHALLS | Converted messy lab shall be where students are gathered |
| STEADY | Sad yet resolute as it were! (6) |
| STEELED | Made resolute, as for a difficult task |
| FOURSQUARE | Resolute as engineers on rowing boats |
| STEELY | Resolute - as an alloy? (6) |
| ADAMANT | Resolute as a mother insect (7) |
| WEIGHT | Be influential, as drama and expounds, acrobatic, baccarat, limestone, ideogram, migrane, 19, pounce and Elton are seen to? (5,6) |
| CARRY | Be influential, as drama and expounds, acrobatic, baccarat, limestone, ideogram, migrane, 19, pounce and Elton are seen to? (5,6) |
| FEEDON | Live for, as drama |
| STIRSUP | Causes, as drama |
| STAGED | Produced as drama |
| ARMADAS | Navy forces as drama developed (7) |
| PERFORMINGARTS | Things such as drama roles encapsulating revolutionary from Niger |
| FAME | 1980 musical film about a group of New York drama students starring Irene Cara (4) |
| SCRIPT | Drama student's study |
| NOEL | Christmas for Japanese drama student (4) |
| SIXTHFORM | Final years at school when students are studying for A or AS levels (5,4) |
| ETON | Its students are called Oppidans |
