| BACKS | Lends one's support to players behind the scenes, at some stage (5) |
| TAKES | Thanks to an old film, one can complete scenes, at some stage... (5) |
| BACKSUP | Lends one's support to look of angry cats (5,2) |
| EXEUNT | They all left the scene, at some stage (6) |
| CATCHERSMASKS | Protectors of players behind the plate |
| LINEBACKER | American football player behind the scrimmage (10) |
| SUPPORTS | Quaff such fortified wines as one lends one's name to (8) |
| HALFBACK | Don't give full support to player |
| BACK | Give support to; player |
| PHOTOGENIC | Whatever lends one, you might hear, to be so attractively snappy, don't take the 5th! (10) |
| SPONSORSHIP | Guarantee to lend one's name to a liner |
| OLDREDSANDSTONE | Rock star lends one odd novel (3,3,9) |
| LOUIS | Young prince who often steals the scene at royal events (5) |
| TRACT | Piece of land for the players behind two sevenths of try-line (5) |
| DUMMY | Player behind play-the-ball, ... half (5) |
| SCENA | The cane's broken and what a scene at the opera! (5) |
| KATE | and 40ac, English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year |
| ATKINSON | see 42ac, English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year |
| EVITA | Musical with a scene at the balcony of the Casa Rosada |
| LIBRA | Left one support on the scales (5) |
