| CURTAIN | ___ call, the appearance of performers after a performance's end to receive the audience's applause (7) |
| CURTAINCALL | Appearance of performers after a show to acknowledge applause (7,4) |
| NOMIC | Customary honour ___ it's pleasant, no end, to receive it (5) |
| ALAAP | Such as opens raga in the manner of a performance's beginning |
| FINALE | Performance's end |
| BOWS | Acknowledges the audience's applause |
| EYEOFDAY | I listened to fado performance, end of July, in the sun |
| INANE | Silly way programme and performance end (5) |
| ELBE | Royal treatment: Mr. Elba, dashing actor who in 2016 chose his mum to escort him to Buckingham Palace to receive the honor of membership in the Order of the British Empire |
| CLAPOMETER | A device that measures or purports to measure the volume of an audience's applause (10) |
| ROLL | _ call, the reading aloud of an official list of names (4) |
| SLAM | A type of poetry contest whose name symbolises the audience's power to praise or destroy a verse (4) |
| BOW | What a violinist takes before and after a performance, with "a" |
| PLAYPEN | A writer is after a performance that holds the tots (7) |
| ARMYGENERAL | As a result of his European Recovery Plan, George Marshall was the only US ____ to receive the Nobel peace prize |
| THEXFACTOR | Spellbinding person following performer after start of this talent show (3,1-6) |
| TAKEGUARD | Cricket term describing the way in which a batsman/woman must stand ready to receive the ball (4,5) |
| GETTHEWINDUP | Become a little scared to receive the signal to finish? (3,3,4,2) |
| STROKE | It's O.K. to receive the rest of the blow (6) |
| STLEO | Fifth-century pope, the first to receive the title "the Great" |
