| THEEMPIRE | and 12dn, Film tempers their irritation announcing president's return |
| STRIKESBACK | see 4ac, Film tempers their irritation announcing president's return |
| ITCH | A hundred hit out in their irritation (4) |
| RETRACE | Go back over former president's return east (7) |
| SORRYTO | and 12dn, 2018 comedy-fantasy film starring Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson |
| RAIN | and 12dn, 1988 Oscar-winning film drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise (4,3) |
| MAN | and 12dn, 1988 Oscar-winning film drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise (4,3) |
| HENRY | and 12dn, Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| TERENCE | and 12dn, English actor whose films include The Collector, Far From The Madding Crowd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| THEHAUNTED | and 12dn, ? and the Ghost's Bargain, 1848 Christmas short novel by Charles Dickens |
| EIGHTH | and 12dn, The - 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder |
| ROYAL | and 12dn, Secretion of the honeybee fed to larvae being raised as queens |
| THEODORE | and 12dn, 2010 John Grisham novel subtitled Kid Lawyer |
| DARK | and 12dn, 2010 novel by Stuart MacBride |
| STARINGATTHE | and 12dn, 1986 novel by Julian Barnes |
| SUDDENLYLAST | and 12dn, 1958 stage play by Tennessee Williams |
| HAMILTON | and 12dn, Rugby union lock; 2006 Scotland Test debutant against Romania |
| WOULDNTSAY | and 12dn, With Sinuous Sue on toadstool, boy endlessly agog is very shy |
| BALLROOM | and 12dn, Well-known song by Sir Noel Coward from his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet |
| WOBEGONBOY | and 12dn, 1997 novel by Garrison Keillor whose central character is John Tollefson (7,3) |
