| ANTISERUM | University man tries to create the bloody stuff |
| RITES | Tries to create religious customs (5) |
| ICHOR | Endless boring work I led - bloody stuff |
| REGISTER | Record the man tries to play (8) |
| WAR | ___ of the Worlds 2005 sci-fi film directed by Steven Spielberg where a man tries to protect his family from an alien attack |
| TACKLES | Nail man tries to deal with (7) |
| MAESTRI | A man tries to work out with some composers (7) |
| TOILE | French word for "cloth", used to refer to the plain fabric used to create the pattern or muslin for a couture or made-to-measure garment (5) |
| MISCREANT | Man tries frantically to restrain Charlie, one behaving badly (9) |
| FILLERWORD | Sound added to everyday speech, and what's been added to create the answers to the starred clues |
| ADAMANT | In Canada man tries very hard (7) |
| PASTIER | Less healthy-looking old man tries exercising |
| LIPPI | Italian artist who was commissioned by the Medici family to create the panel paintings The Annunciat |
| PROSANDCONS | Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues |
| CHANGEDONESTUNE | Adopted a new attitude, or what music producers did to create the answers to the starred clues? |
| BUSHIDO | Birdhouse losing the queen, to create the samurai code (7) |
| DRUMSTICKS | Used to create the beat for the chicken dance? (10) |
| SHREWSBURY | In the play's opening speech, this characters mentions "King Henry's victory, Who in a bloody field..." Where is the bloody field he mentions? |
| ABSE | Dannie, author of the volume of poetry Ask the Bloody Horse (4) |
| ASSIZES | The Bloody ___, trials that followed the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 (7) |
