| FLASH | Person or thing enjoying only brief success, in the pan |
| FLASHINTHEPAN | Person enjoying brief success helps Thai fan struggling with note (5,2,3,3) |
| WHISTLESTOP | Be quiet for fear of work becoming very fast, with only brief pauses |
| SHORTLIVED | Drive lots arranged around Haiti's capital? It's only brief (5,5) |
| NINEDAYSWONDER | Brief success, the amazing Lady Jane Grey? (4,4,6) |
| HIERARCHY | Brief success at archery confusing top people in organisation (9) |
| GOLDMINER | One for whom a flash in the pan is a good thing |
| FRY | Non-u member of the Eumenides could put it in the pan (3) |
| NETWORK | Catch tail of groper, throw it in the pan, then see The Matrix (7) |
| CALMER | More serene state, only brief |
| EPHEMERAL | Having only brief existence |
| WHITE | Colour of the man's suit, a success in the Guardian(5) |
| PETER | Beatrix Potter-based film enjoying sequel success in the re-opened cinemas (5,6) |
| RABBIT | Beatrix Potter-based film enjoying sequel success in the re-opened cinemas (5,6)) |
| ONEHIT | Model hot on red wine, a brief success (3-3,6) |
| SUCCINCT | Brief success extinct, once Essex town is abandoned |
| ANSON | Admiral George ___, whose reforms of the British navy contributed to its success in the Seven Years' War of 1756- 63 (5) |
| KRAUSER | Manufacturer who had success in the 1980s in such disparate classes as 80cc and Sidecars. (7) |
| ROLLERMANIA | Nickname for the global success in the mid-1970s of a boy band from Edinburgh (11) |
| BAHAMEN | 2000 flash-in-the-pan band from Nassau |
