| BETTYMARTIN | 'All my eye and --'; a phrase originating in the 1700s meaning rubbish or humbug (5,6) |
| PUPIL | He's at school? That's all my eye! |
| NODS | Even Homer ___ (phrase originating from Horace that basically means "Nobody's perfect") |
| PLATH | "I shut my eyes and all drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." This American poet is perhaps best known for her novel The Bell Jar. |
| ULTRAVOX | Which group had hits with Dancing with Tears in My Eyes and Reap the Wild Wind ?(8) |
| NEED | "When I ___ you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you" |
| GAMMON | Word for ham or a joint of bacon; the lashing of the bowsprit; chatter or patter; a victory in a game played on a board marked with fleches; or, humbug, nonsense or rubbish (6) |
| ROCOCOSTYLE | Very ornate designs of the 1700s |
| KID | A tub; a deception, dupe, hoax or humbug; a baby goat; said goatling's skin; a glove made of said leather; or, a sprog, tiny tot or other little child (3) |
| GAFF | A fish-hook; a nautical spar for a sail; a cheap theatre; one's flat, perhaps burgled; a social blunder; nonsense or humbug; or, a secret that is "blown" (4) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| FUDGE | From "to merge", word meaning "cobble together", "manipulate facts or figures" or "humbug!" that is also the name of a soft sweet, based on a mixture of butter, cream and sugar (5) |
| LITTER | Word that collectively refers to a load of old rubbish; or, conversely, a veritable gift of life in the form of a farrow of piglets or a kindle of kittens (6) |
| CADE | Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in the 1700s |
| HOLKHAM | - Hall; seat of the Earls of Leicester in Norfolk, originally designed by William Kent for Thomas Coke in the 1700s (7) |
| CHEVALIER | Biographical drama about a mixed-race violinist set in the 1700s |
| GOINGFORWARD | From this point on ... and a phrase that explains (and is spelled out by) the 12 shifted first letters in this puzzle |
| PARTIILAM | End of a trilogy, and a phrase that hints at each circled word when entering it in the Down direction |
| SLEIGHT | It's deceiving to the eye and a little to the ear |
| THERESA | Maria ___ (queen of Hungary and Bohemia in the 1700s) |
