| PIANO | When the student noticed that the last page of his sheet music was missing, he knew that the ___ recital was going to end on a sour note |
| RUDNER | Comic who said "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." |
| RED | The _ Rec, nickname of the playground located near to Coronation Street (3) |
| PREAMBLE | Pleb nervously clutched a number of pages of his opening statement (8) |
| MAPLELEAFRAG | Scott Joplin piano composition whose sheet music was first published in 1899 |
| TONGUE | Myth-understanding: It was long believed that the ___ has four 23A zones, each of which separately senses sweet, sour, bitter or salty foods (However, biologists now know better) |
| MATADOR | Thrown at random, but number missing - he goes for the bull (7) |
| PESSIMISTS | "History has suggested that the ___ have been wrong time and time again": David Autor (10) |
| ERTE | MISSING: He designed costumes for Mata Hari |
| BOOKEND | The last page of the novel found on the shelf in the library |
| LISZT | Composer seen on the last page of "The Book of Lists" |
| FINISHEDDONNE | Got to the last page of the "Divine Meditations"? |
| ZYME | Fermenting agent (often found on the last page of the dictionary) |
| BEAR | Davy Crockett was: "Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree; Killed him a ... when he was only t |
| OPPOSITENUMBERS | Rivals where the last page of Leviticus is seen? (8,7) |
| ZEBRA | Image on the last page of an alphabet book |
| ZEBRAS | Animals on the last page of a children's book (6) |
| SNEEZE | Audible evidence that the last of the Mohicans had sound knees (6) |
| EPICPROPORTIONS | The scribe knew that documenting all of the hero's deeds would take an effort of ... : 2 wds |
| AGE | Words matter: Have you ever noticed that ads for so-called "___-defying" skin creams ambiguously claim to reduce the "appearance" of fine lines? |
