| STAGECRAFT | Skill or experience in the technicalities of the theatre, including lighting, make-up and sound (10) |
| SCREENTEST | Trying experience in the cinema? (6,4) |
| UNSEASONED | Lacking flavor or experience |
| LLOYD | Successful composer of musical theatre including Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera, Andrew ... Webbe |
| HENSLOWE | Elizabethan bear-baiter, diarist and impresario who co-founded or established former theatres including the Fortune, the Hope and the Rose (8) |
| KNOWHOW | Experience, in the audience, the absence of an Indian's salute (4-3) |
| LEARN | Acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience. (5) |
| GIST | The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (4) |
| MITCHELL | Percussionist best known for his work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s. (8) |
| STAGNATE | Stand in part of theatre, including nationally acclaimed trio, initially (8) |
| SLAPDASH | Make up and run, in hasty and careless fashion (8) |
| ROBERTTHE | One who dresses edgy characters in theatre, including butcher playing Spiderman? (6,3,5) |
| MARUIA | Site of a "luxury geothermal experience" in the Southern Alps (6) |
| STAGEFRIGHT | Great fights erupting - an unwelcome experience in the theatre |
| RAW | Having no experience in the return of hostilities (3) |
| BANDEAU | One way of looking at Brummell's make-up and headgear? |
| FACTORS | Max of make-up and other |
| OINTMENTS | Smitten on make-up and range of cosmetics (9) |
| HANDSOME | Good looking when you hand some make-up and toiletries over (8) |
| NIGHTMARE | Awful experience in the Black Horse |
