| CLOTH | Textile; table covering; tea towel; or, a theatre curtain or backdrop (5) |
| SCENERY | Stage set, or backdrop (7) |
| TABS | Ring pulls; a short word for theatre curtains or stage drapes; or, flaps on subject dividers in ring binders (4) |
| APRON | Section either of a boxing ring, a golf course or a theatre stage; or, a, garment worn to protect clothes (5) |
| HOUSE | One of the two chambers of a bicameral legislature; dwelling such as a bothy, cottage, grange, manor, rectory or vicarage; or, a theatre (5) |
| SCENE | Landscape; real/imaginary place of action or the setting of such in a novel or play; subdivision of an act, marked by the fall of a curtain; or, an unseemly display of emotion (5) |
| STALL | Market booth; cowshed; finger cover of a glove; or, a theatre seat (5) |
| TAROT | Fateful cards show up in a hut or a theatre (5) |
| TABBY | Silk fabric in reserve, underpinning theatre curtain (5) |
| RECUR | In theatre curtains come round at intervals (5) |
| DRIED | Used a tea towel, ... up the dishes (5) |
| SCRIM | Linen fabric used for curtain or upholstery tiring (5) |
| BAIZE | Card-table covering (5) |
| DRYUP | When you use a tea towel, stop talking (3,2) |
| LINEN | Towel or pillowcase |
| BEARD | Chin curtain or goatee |
| DRIES | Uses tea towel |
| SPILL | Tea towel target |
| BLACKOUT | Word for amnesia or deliquium; the blinding of all light in a city or a theatre; a break in communication; media censorship; a power cut; or, the suspension of a broadcast (8) |
| GALLERY | Room or building devoted to the display or sale of works of art; photographer's studio; upper storey or balcony in a church or a theatre; or, an underground passage (7) |
