| AMDRAM | Local theatre director gutted, taken in by American duo |
| SHEDS | Female director's gutted casts (5) |
| MANEATER | Song by American duo Hall and Oates that reached No. 6 in the UK charts in 1982 (8) |
| STRESSED | ___ Out, 2015 song released by American duo Twenty One Pilots (8) |
| KNAVERY | Returning minister taken in by American dishonesty? |
| HUMPS | Hard politician taken in by American projections (5) |
| USELESS | Incompetent former tennis player taken in by American (7) |
| UPSETS | Quiet group boxed in by American troubles (6) |
| CREPITATION | Cracking award local theatre received |
| REP | Material for the local theatre |
| TWOBIT | Cheap American duo took part (3-3) |
| EVERLYBROTHERS | American duo who had a hit with 'Wake Up Little Susie' (6,8) |
| BONNIEAND | And 11ac 20th cent. American duo who were notorious robbers and killers (6,3,5) |
| PETER | Titled theatre director who succeeded Olivier as director of the National Theatre in 1973 (5,4) |
| HALL | Titled theatre director who succeeded Olivier as director of the National Theatre in 1973 (5,4) |
| LITTLEWOOD | Joan ___, British theatre director who founded the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (10) |
| TREVORNUNN | Theatre director; ex-artistic director of the Royal National Theatre (6,4) |
| COUNTYHALL | Judge with unknown theatre director in administrative centre (6,4) |
| MOSS | -- Hart, American playwright and theatre director (1904-61) (4) |
| JARA | Victor ?, Chilean theatre director and singer-songwriter murdered in 1973 |
