| JOSEPHINE | ___ Jobert, Florence in 9A, missing from the last series but back again for the new one! (9) |
| JEFF | ___ Goldblum, actor who starred in the first two Jurassic films and is back for a cameo in the new one! (4) |
| READY | Prepared once again for the new day (5) |
| SEMINAL | Highly original if missing from the last-but-one round (7) |
| HEIR | Successor muddles? Hire a new one! (4) |
| REVERSE | Go back again for publicity in 14 (7) |
| THIRDS | Back again for more food |
| DECAMERON | Collection of 100 tales by Boccaccio reputed to have been told over ten days during the plague in Florence in 1348 (9) |
| GLISSANDO | Is French author in Cheltenham area ignoring last series of notes? |
| LAURA | ___ Whitmore, NOW! presenter who worked on the show from 2011 until the last series (5) |
| SAMBORA | Richie _, musician who was Jacket Potato in the last series of The Masked Singer (7) |
| MILOSFORMAN | This director, who'd won Best Director in 1976 and 1985, was nominated again for the award in 1997 for The People vs. Larry Flynt |
| ARDAL | ___ O'hanlon, comic who played the main DI in 9A series 6-9 (pictured bottom) (5) |
| RICKMORANIS | Actor back on the big screen in Spaceballs: The New One (4,7) |
| FACTOR | The X ___, TV talent show back on our screens, with 8A returning to defend her title as winning mentor of the last series (6) |
| DONNY | ___ Osmond, singer who was a guest judge on the last series of The Masked Singer (5) |
| ANNA | ___ Maxwell Martin, actress who guest-starred in the last series of Line Of Duty (4) |
| BILLIE | Actress who made a surprise appearance in the last series of Doctor Who, _ Piper (6) |
| DRNO | Sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, but the first to be made into a film (2,2) |
| STORK | A reintroduction project has resulted in what bird migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years? (5) |
