| AZOIC | A character at the end? Nothing, almost frozen lifeless (5) |
| ALPHA | Mountain height with a character at the top? |
| OMEGA | The end, nothing very big (5) |
| PENANCE | Act of contrition in Cornish location - character at the end released (7) |
| HATTER | A character at the mad tea party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (6) |
| ENOUGH | Sufficient and adequate, in the end, nothing incomplete (6) |
| REFER | Direct official dismissing two characters at the end (5) |
| STAND | Brief encounter of little matter...ends nothing at breakup come daybreak! (3-5,5) |
| POOLE | Grace, a character at Thornfield in Jane Eyre (5) |
| PANIC | Alarm seeing lavatory bowl almost frozen (5) |
| DELTA | Greek character at the mouth of a river (5) |
| BOOTS | Pantomime character at the chemist's? (4,2,5) |
| THETA | Greek character at the broadcast (5) |
| MARCH | Surname of the Alcott characters at the starred answers' starts, or 2020 month in which women made all the Universal Crosswords |
| ALICE | Character at the Mad Hatter's tea party |
| INCOG | Characters at the back in Saudi Arabian music video twerking under assumed names (5) |
| HEART | Try to get time, like Earth characters, at the core (5) |
| RANDY | Lustful characters at the edges of respectability? |
| AMIR | Star character at the end coming to the fore as ruler |
| AGITATE | A foolish character, at the end might stir things up (7) |
