| JOEPUBLIC | The common man, widely known to support Orton? (3,6) |
| LOOT | Spoils, swag for Joe Orton? (4) |
| FAMED | Is widely known to have acquired notoriety, say (5) |
| INFAMOUS | Widely known to be disreputable (8) |
| INTHEPUBLICEYE | Widely known to 9 but not in the satirical magazine? (2,3,6,3) |
| DETERGENT | Purifying block used by the common man |
| POPULISTS | Defenders of the common man |
| JOEBLOGGS | Name for common man (3,6) |
| ERPINGHAM | The ___, 1966 television play by Joe Orton (9,4) |
| FOLKSONG | The air of the common man? (4-4) |
| AARONCOPLAND | American composer whose best-known works include Fanfare for the Common Man |
| BLOODIEST | Most violent ends in second-rate Orton play |
| BUTLERSAW | Play by Joe Orton first performed in 1969 (4,3,6,3) |
| PLEBEIAN | Alpine resort around most of the high mountain? In Scotland it is for the common man! (8) |
| AARON | 'Fanfare for the Common Man' composer Copland |
| SMITH | The common man a forger? (5) |
| BLOKE | The common man, being skint, changes sides (5) |
| ELP | "Fanfare for the Common Man" band, for short |
| COPLAND | American composer (Fanfare for the Common Man) |
| FANFARE | Short piece of music played on brass instruments (for the Common Man?) (7) |
