| STAGEHANDS | They set the scene, performing G and S with haste |
| PIRATE | Buccaneer association (G & S) with town of 83G MPD (6) |
| TANGO | In 1922 they set the guidelines to turn this shocking South American dance into something more respectable for the ballroom |
| POLICYMAKERS | They set the course for producer to interrupt Olympics broadcast (12) |
| SLATE | They set the table for track workers (5-6) |
| LAYERS | They set the table for track workers (5-6) |
| PACEMAKERS | They set the rate, of course (10) |
| BACKPROJECTION | Returned with estimate used to set the scene (4,10) |
| SENESCENCE | Set the scene, twice over, of one's old age (10) |
| BACKCLOTH | Maintain ministers should set the scene (9) |
| HARD | The way one is expected to die, as expressed in the title of a movie released on July 15, 1988, in the U.S., with Bruce Willis as its star |
| OPES | "And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") |
| STAGECREW | Help to set the scene |
| DIRECT | Set the scene? |
| IOLANTHE | G & S' alternative for "The Peer and the Peri" (8) |
| GIUSEPPE | Marco Palmieri's brother in the G & S operetta The Gondoliers (8) |
| NEEDLEDROP | Point in a film when an iconic song sets the scene |
| JEANS | Originating with Levi Strauss's 501s, garment(s) with styles including skinny, mom, boyfriend, flared, straight, low rise, high rise or baggy (5) |
| TAYLOR | Elizabeth ___; Hollywood actress who starred in films including Cleopatra and The V.I.P.s with Richard Burton (6) |
| LATINAMERICAN | Romance speaker from the south of the U.S with certain animal ingredients (5,8) |
