| TWANKEY | Widow ____, dame played by an older man in pantomime Aladdin (7) |
| EDNA | Dame played by an Australian guy |
| DADDY | Attractive older man, in gay slang |
| LEONARD | Displaced an older man |
| WIDOWTWANKEY | Pantomime dame and comic foil in the pantomime Aladdin (5,7) |
| OAP | Initially an older man with maybe a younger woman (3) |
| PROTEGE | One who is guided by an older or more experienced person (7) |
| BRANDON | The older man whose suit Marianne eventually accepts in Sense and Sensibility (7) |
| SPARTAN | Society role played by an austere old Greek |
| JEHOVAH | Older man above perhaps gets start of Silent Witness for religious experience (7) |
| EARLDOM | Title of novel older man left unfinished (7) |
| NATASHA | Avenger with the superhero alias Black Widow, ___ Romanoff |
| PERSONA | Character played by an actor |
| ALADDIN | Theologian, one entertained by boy who appears in pantomime? (7) |
| MIMICRY | With its root in "pantomime", word for the act, practice or skill of aping, copying, imitating or mocking by a human, insect or other species (7) |
| BUTTONS | In pantomime, Baron Hardup's servant, who is often dressed in a bellboy's costume |
| ALIBABA | A politician and a graduate in pantomime (3,4) |
| GIGOLO | Man supported by an older woman to be her lover (6) |
| JUDIDENCH | In the Bond film Goldeneye, which dame played M? (4,5) |
| CHARLIEALLNUT | Character played by an Oscar-winning Humphrey Bogart in the 1951 adventure film The African Queen (7,6) |
