| ILLNATURED | Moody character out of sorts initially with director (3-7) |
| EMOTICON | Moody characters need energy to travel around clubs |
| DIDONESBIT | Helped out as expected with director on First Blood in new editions (3,4,3) |
| SPATCHCOCK | Hit out in disagreement with director's preparation of The Birds? |
| TOUCHTYPED | PA routinely did this petty wrangling with director, that hurt inside (5-5) |
| MADEASCENE | Fought in public with director (4,1,5) |
| DISPIRITED | Stop imbibing whisky, say, with director in a glum state (10) |
| DRWHO | This character, out of breath, wildly spread the word (2,3) |
| CATARRH | Discharge shady character, out of the frame for crime (7) |
| ICEIN | Don't allow to leave with odd characters out of discretion (3,2) |
| ABRIDGE | Cut second character out of fictional village |
| NODDY | Character out of place in New York (5) |
| SCAM | Swindle Greek character out of prawns (4) |
| RECESS | Soldiers chasing first character out of retirement (6) |
| AND | Plus three characters out of thousands (3) |
| INITIAL | First letter got characters out of unfair litigation |
| SEVERELY | Harshly cut odd characters out of medley |
| ALLEGRO | Instruction given to musician enticing characters out of training college mischievously |
| FIRSTOFF | Sources of wood, good sort initially ... (5,3) |
| HEAVILY | Thus leant on, I left the villainous character out! (7) |
