| DREAMING | Fantasising in day about a Chinese dynasty (8) |
| DYSTOPIA | Dismal day about to end with one in dismal situation (8) |
| ESCAPISM | Fantasising about a Pisces male? (8) |
| JULIENNE | Thirty days about right to keep soup |
| IDEALISM | Writer's hosting nervous ladies, fantasising (8) |
| DOWNWARD | In day by day personal fight, going south (8) |
| LOWLIGHT | Night-bird seen in day a disappointment |
| AMBITION | A moment I found in day for drive |
| EVENTIDE | Organised occasion with fish served late in day for Pope? (8) |
| DISLODGE | Stop accepting hard work after taking in day shift (8) |
| TALETOLD | Life for Macbeth brutally offing all; an unfit lout dignifying bloodthirstiness day in, day out (1,2,1,4,4,2,2,5,4,2,5,3,5,10,7) |
| PAINTCAN | Container often found on move-in day |
| DRAINAGE | Removal of water from shower in day time |
| SUI | A three-letter word shared by a Chinese dynasty and a Latin reflexive meaning "of oneself", as seen in a phrase meaning "one of a kind" (3) |
| MUSING | Thinking about you and me in the grips of a Chinese dynasty |
| TANG | A word for pungency; a Chinese dynasty; or, a surgeonfish (4) |
| SAMPAN | A little sleep and the master's put about a Chinese boat (6) |
| SOONG | "___ of Norway" (play about a Chinese Scandinavian) |
| SNAKE | Ken's upset about a Chinese zodiac animal (5) |
| NIHAO | "___, Kai-Lan" (Nick Jr. series about a Chinese American girl) |
