| DOLICAPAX | With criminal mind, potentially one best to cut slack after act |
| POTION | Brew is number one, best to serve up (6) |
| CHINA | Potentially one's best friend |
| CROOKED | Warped, like the criminal mind (7) |
| INEXTREMIS | One then cut slack at a desperate point (2,8) |
| TITAN | Cut slack, as sensed in hearing, for powerful person (5) |
| CUTEST | Most attractive set cut slack (6) |
| CHRYSALIS | Potentially one of 18 lyrics has to be revamped (9) |
| MATINEEIDOL | Actor, also potentially one ideal to men? |
| INACTIVE | Up north, after act three, sweetheart has nothing to do (8) |
| GOALLOUT | Do one's best to be objective with yobbo (2,3,3) |
| STROVE | Did one's best to cover the other end with the heater (6) |
| TRENDY | Smart, aim to do one's best to trap (6) |
| ASPIRANT | Partisan, potentially one with ambition (8) |
| GRANDMASTER | One best qualified to find a mate? |
| DRESS | By which one realises what suits one best (5,5) |
| SENSE | By which one realises what suits one best (5,5) |
| SOCIALCLIMBER | Local scribe, I'm potentially one rising in company? |
| TACITURN | Saying little, go after Act I is rewritten |
| ETERNAL | Endless ale drunk before and after act, we hear |
