| SANER | Getting rid of the director is smoother and more reasonable (5) |
| CHOPPINGBOARD | Getting rid of the directors presumably producing the wooden type in The Restaurant (8,5) |
| SHOOTINGSTAR | Is this what the director is expecting to do travelling light? (8,4) |
| ONBOARD | Where the director is found. At sea? (2,5) |
| HITCH | Type of knot; a movie with Will Smith; or, the nickname of the director whose films include of Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and The Birds (5) |
| STONE | Surname of the director of the films Platoon, JFK, and Natural Born Killers (5) |
| UNTIL | Up to the time of jauntily getting rid of the bird (5) |
| CAPRA | Surname of the director of It's A Wonderful Life (5) |
| LARGE | Liberal student getting rid of the second letter in the freight vessel (5) |
| REINS | Restrains while getting rid of the rats, maybe (5) |
| BORED | Failed to catch the interest of the directors, we hear (5) |
| AIRER | Something for drying is more reasonable when initially discounted (5) |
| WISER | A more reasonable, faultless service to the West Indies (5) |
| EMERY | Central Yemen railway is smoother (5) |
| CIDER | Drink that gets some of the directors drunk (5) |
| OVERTAKES | Concluded these are the responsibilities of the director and passes the lot by (9) |
| TAKASHI | First name of the director of Lupin III: The First |
| SPENDINGSPREE | Look around! Hang spring upheaval of getting rid of the money (8,5) |
| DISMISSAL | Getting rid of the girl the lad is crazy about (9) |
| SSS | Initials-sharers of the director of "e.T." (1982) |
