| ESTIMABLE | Worthy bridge opponents -- I'm invited into their play area (9) |
| VIGILANTE | Someone taking the law into their own hands (9) |
| INSTILLED | Yet in the end, I somehow got it into their heads (9) |
| COMMANDOS | Military men put love into their directives (9) |
| LINGUISTS | Language experts put new graphical user interface into their word collections (9) |
| COENZYMEQ | A biochemical panic with French leaving me tucking into their chicken |
| PRESSHOME | As far as possible push reporters into their own houses? (5,4) |
| TRIALJURY | Could error also enter into their verdict? (5,4) |
| ENFEOFFED | Two bridge opponents, leaving to go into meal, gave up (9) |
| RESENTFUL | Comfortable about bridge opponents becoming bitter (9) |
| BUNTHORNE | * Bridge opponents found after both run away (9) |
| ISOSCELES | With two sides equal, one's close in play with bridge opponents |
| ENCOUNTER | Meet bridge opponents in front of bar (9) |
| ENCLOSURE | One's contained bridge opponents before the end |
| SOUTHEAST | Bridge opponents in the home counties (5-4) |
| ROMEO | Juliet's beloved in their play |
| AMATEURS | Their play won't earn them money |
| AMATEURTEAMS | Their play cannot be a paying proposition |
| AMATEUR | Their play won't earn money (7) |
| NINNYSTOMB | In 3.1, the "rude mechanicals," as Puck has named them, are rehearsing their play. Bottom, who plays Pyramus, and Flute, who plays Thisbe, meet in the moonlight. Flute says, "As true as truest horse t |