| AMUSEMENT | "One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any ___ in life": "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| WISHLIST | Catalogue of things one wants to have or do (4,4) |
| CANOFWORMS | One is fishing for something if one sees this as potential trouble (3,2,5) |
| MOMENTOUS | Doctor, doctor! One must be serious! (9) |
| ETHEREAL | In life, the real light is seen (8) |
| WATERFOUNTAIN | The parish-pump perhaps requires a mouthpiece if one wants to go with the flow? (5,8) |
| WEARTHETROUSERS | Advice to shun dhoti if one wants to be assertive at home (4,3,8) |
| FORTYTWO | Number that's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
| CLASSIC | Mark Twain described a literary ____ as "Something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read" |
| DODGE | A useful tip if one wants to get out of the way (5) |
| CREATIVE | One must go via Crete if one wants to look inventive (8) |
| ANSWER | - to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything; number 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (6) |
| BURNISH | Brush in use, if one wants to polish it up (7) |
| KENDAL | Voice of Hunca Munca in the series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends who starred in The Good Life, The Camomile Lawn and Rosemary & Thyme (6) |
| TINMAN | Character in The Wizard of Oz who wants to have a heart (3,3) |
| DICKENS | Author of a series of Christmas novels including The Battle of Life, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth (7) |
| MEHITABEL | The cat in her ninth life, the friend of Archy, the philosophical cockroach, in the US classic by Don Marquis (9) |
| CALLATAXI | Summon for duty in first class ? it's what one does if one wants a lift (4,1,4) |
| ITCHY | Feeling as if one wants to scratch |
| UHAUL | Option if one wants to make a move? |
