| JAMESBOLAM | Who played Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In and a teacher in The Beiderbecke Affair? (5,5) |
| BOLAM | James ____ played Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In |
| ALANPLATER | Dramatist; author of ITV's The Beiderbecke Trilogy and BBC TV series Trinity Tales (4,6) |
| ISLA | ___ Blair, actress whose TV credits include The Advocates and When The Boat Comes In (4) |
| WATER | Dilute 26's forerunner when the boat comes in (5,4) |
| SUBLIMINAL | I'm in a subconscious state and I'm all in when the bus returns |
| OPENSEASON | Period when criticism might pour in, and a hint to the words that bookend the starred clues' answers |
| SUBMISSIVE | Giving in when the advance comes by letter (10) |
| AFTERHOURS | Pursuing something we stock? Hard to get in when the shop's shut (5,5) |
| JUMPAROUND | House of Pain hit that begins "Pack it up, pack it in," and a description of each set of circled letters |
| BODYDOUBLE | Film stand-in, and a hint to answers to asterisked clues (10) |
| WHEN | Word that when followed by The Boat Comes In gives the title of a BBC period drama that ran from 1976 to 1981 (4) |
| BARKEEPER | Taverner gets a signal from this as the boat comes in (9) |
| ASHCROFT | Actress in A Passage to India who was the voice of Hilda in When the Wind Blows (8) |
| FANNIEFLAGG | Author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" who cameoed as a teacher in the 1991 film adaptation: 2 wds. |
| BRINGUPTOSPEED | Loop in, and a hint to the progression found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| WHENTHE | Words that when followed by Boat Comes In gives the title of a BBC period drama series which ran from 1976 until 1981 (4,3) |
| CLASS | A group of students at school who share a room and a teacher (5) |
| THEKINGANDI | Classic musical about a monarch and a teacher, set in Siam (3,4,3,1) |
| ONAWING | "With our full crew aboard; And our trust in the Lord; We're coming in ... and a prayer" (2,1,4) |
