| YOUTH | "___ is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope": Aristotle |
| FAST | It is quick to go without food (4) |
| GULLIBLE | Ordering glue, Bill is easily deceived (8) |
| SUCCOUR | Help person who is easily deceived, we hear (7) |
| DUPE | Sandhill, One who is easily deceived (4) |
| LAMBADA | An attorney followed someone who is easily deceived in the dance (7) |
| OATES | "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" author |
| JOHNSON | "Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured." This Englishman was a commentator of his time whose companion was James Boswell. Who is this? |
| TWINKLE | ... and what it does because it is a little star (7) |
| TRICKERY | Stratagem that requires care because it is awkward to include hesitantly (8) |
| LATEST | Because it is up-to-date, Carol ate stroganoff admittedly (6) |
| IMPROMPTU | Poins is quick to respond to unionist's extempore speech |
| HASTE | One is quick to make it (5) |
| EVEREST | "Because it is there," answered George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb this mountain |
| EDISON | Who said "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work |
| MANDATORY | Describing an action or procedure which has to be done, because it is a rule or a law (9) |
| SCOTCHMIST | Drizzle so-called because it is common north of the Border (6,4) |
| DEARTH | Shortage of thorium because it is too expensive? (6) |
| SOURGRAPES | Disparagement of something because it is unobtainable (4,6) |
| KINETICENERGY | Physics: energy that a body has because it is in motion (7,6) |
