| STEPPES | "He was in reality a wolf of the ___" (Hesse) |
| ORCA | A wolf of the sea |
| LUDI | Magister ___ (Hesse) |
| TRADER | A wolf of Wall Street |
| AUPAIR | Leaders of an unusual political alliance, in reality, a proponent of the nanny state perhaps (2,4) |
| TROJANHORSE | A sneaky wooden gift pony, but in reality a phoney, that crashed an ancient place; thus, a seemingly harmless program that secretly hacks an interface in cyberspace (6,5) |
| ATHEART | In reality, a source of danger, with resistance lowered |
| ACTUAL | In reality a cult with a difference (6) |
| PUNKD | Show where Drake once thought he was in the middle of an earthquake in a parking garage while riding in a van with the Secret Service, who had just tased a pregnant lady right in front of him; then As |
| RARELY | Seldom opening in reality, a bank (6) |
| ASITIS | In reality, a protest largely succeeded |
| PANDORASBOX | An apparently valuable present, in reality a curse |
| HOPS | Flower cones of a plant known as wolf of the woods used in brewing or dried to decorate beams in pubs (4) |
| MOONSHINE | Word with a "lunatical" orbit of meanings, ranging from the literal light of our silvery selenic satellite to show without reality, a Shakespearean month, hooch smuggled by parish lantern-lit night an |
| BETA | Could be you'll hear the second wolf of the pack? (4) |
| SIMULACRUM | "A real without origin or reality: a hyperreal," per Jean Baudrillard |
| ILSA | "___, She-Wolf of the SS" (cult film) |
| LOBO | Endangered gray wolf of the Southwest |
| LIL | ___Bad Wolf, of the comics |
| FACT | Reality; a truth (4) |
