| STAGERIGHT | Performance nerves, losing heart as the audience left |
| NECKLACE | What a nerve losing first place in jewellers (8) |
| STAGEFRIGHT | Pre-performance nerves (5,6) |
| CAME | Got involved in the action, as the audience arriving at the theatre did! (4,4,4) |
| INTO | Got involved in the action, as the audience arriving at the theatre did! (4,4,4) |
| PLAY | Got involved in the action, as the audience arriving at the theatre did! (4,4,4) |
| ASIDE | One sighed audibly, as the audience heard (5) |
| NOISES | Session's over - losing heart, as sounds unmusical (6) |
| PEON | Person losing heart as lowly farm worker (4) |
| ORANGISH | Men suffer pain, losing heart as Trump appears? |
| SUPPLEMENTARILY | Loose-limbed fellows lately losing heart, as extra medicine is taken (15) |
| EVISCERATE | Lose the heart as Elvis left out by Clare as one of the standards (10) |
| OUTERMOST | As far from the heart as possible |
| DROOP | Lose heart as copper brought up the destitute (5) |
| BEARUP | "Don't lose heart," as you called down to the furniture deliverers? (4,2) |
| HEEDS | Takes to heart, as advice |
| AUTHORIAL | A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist? (9) |
| GANGSTA | Sense of dread in oligarch's heart, as a hoodlum (7) |
| EARTHSHATTERING | Heart (as a setter might put it) is tremendously important (5-10) |
| COCKLE | Weed showing a bit of heart, as it were? (6) |
