| ARETOO | Retort that one might imagine C-3PO saying as a young droid on the playground |
| MEERKAT | A mere feline, one might imagine, but it's a mongoose (7) |
| PICTURE | A part of which one might imagine, with a trice (7) |
| EMU | Bird mentioned as one of the exotic pets that one might buy in the Barenaked Ladies song "If I Had $1,000,000" |
| CRUNCHIEST | Circus hen played with the model to get the potato chips that one might prefer the most (10) |
| STICKSANDSTONES | Start of a retort that ends "but names will never hurt me" |
| SHARP | Saying, 'As ----- as a tack' |
| NAKED | *How a nervous speaker might imagine the audience |
| LIPREADER | One can see what you're saying as pilot's circling airport regularly |
| DICTARE | To keep on saying, as for example Cicero to his secretary Tiro |
| APPARITION | This is a movie you might imagine you saw (3,10) |
| THE | This is a movie you might imagine you saw (3,10) |
| ROBOT | A machine that is like a man such as R2-D2 or C-3PO in Star Wars (5) |
| WISHED | Expressed a desire that one might have done this at the well |
| YESITIS | Retort that might be followed by an Internet search |
| RARE | Saying, as ... as hen's teeth |
| AXIOM | Greek character follows a sacred saying as truth |
| EEL | Saying: As slippery as an - |
| GOLFTAN | Shade that one might find on the links? |
| MIXINGDRINKS | Cocktail bar speciality that one might regret in the morning? (6,6) |
