| CREATOR | Or react this way to the maker (7) |
| ANGRILY | Any girl upset will react this way! (7) |
| RETCH | "If a topic makes you [...] laugh, or sigh, or ____ - or react physically in any way - you have a winner" (Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist) |
| RESPONSIVE | Quick to react, this writer's finished person's novel (10) |
| SWOONS | Faints, or reacts to some desirable flirting |
| RESPONDER | One who replies or reacts |
| SOUSA | The composer went this way to the States |
| LONG | It's this way to the top |
| EGRESS | P.T. Barnum's clever exit sign, 'This Way to the ___' |
| SCRATCH | Come up to this way to cancel race entry (7) |
| STEALTH | Cats display this way to grip bird hard (7) |
| ISTHMUS | Strip of land exists in this way to protect motorway (7) |
| INHALER | This way to suck in medication directly is on-trend and healthier (7) |
| MAITRED | "This way to your table" speaker |
| WRIGHTS | Fair claims, we're told, of the makers (7) |
| YOUNEEDTOSEEKELP | Oceanographer's advice to the maker of this puzzle? |
| WALTDISNEY | WA Ltd is returning yen to the maker of Fantasia (4,6) |
| TRADEMARK | Dart to the maker! You'll recognise his sign! (9) |
| BETWEENTHELINES | Be very cute to an indefinitely large degree, while senile characters go back to read this way, to deduce the hidden meaning (7,3,5) |
| ONOATH | The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth said this way to Noah (2,4) |
