| RECREANT | Fantastic start to theatrical career involving N. Coward (8) |
| STAGESTRUCK | Mounts HGV, desperate for a theatrical career |
| SUPERPOWER | A strong state might have had fantastic start (10) |
| RATRACE | You'd like to escape this career involving a trustee (3,4) |
| PARACHUTE | Secretary with career involving small building's canopy |
| ORACLE | Who'd look into the future? Love career involving learner |
| AUDIENCE | Auden welcomes first person from Clare to theatrical group (8) |
| TERRIFY | Get scared if introduced to theatrical dame |
| PANTO | Award zero stars, perhaps, to theatrical performance (5) |
| REPRODUCTIONS | With regard to theatrical shows, make copies (13) |
| POLTROON | After beginning to play round, left golf course an utter coward (8) |
| NAPOLEON | French leader to sleep over? Revolting Coward! (8) |
| RELATIVE | 1951 stage play by Noel Coward (8,6) |
| DAUGHTER | "Don't put your ... on the stage, Mrs Worthington" (Noel Coward) (8) |
| REOCCURS | Happens again when army commander's sheltering the coward (8) |
| TURNTAIL | Reveal oneself to be a beastly coward (4,4) |
| NOBELIUM | Coward catches bishop's virus regularly on front of mask element (8) |
| LAUGHTER | Present ____, play by Noel Coward first performed in 1942 (8) |
| TWILIGHT | A Song at. . . , 1966 play by Noel Coward (8) |
| OVERBACK | Make great effort to please using blank verse a coward rewrote (4,4,9) |
