| EARNESTNESS | A stern sense represented as a serious quality (11) |
| LIFELONG | One criminal put inside pound - good as a serious custodial sentence |
| TRAGEDIAN | Somehow get in RADA as a serious actor (9) |
| SCARAMOUCHE | Boastful coward in Italian commedia dell'arte, usually represented as a black- clad mock Spanish don (11) |
| SOBRIETY | Sauce containing cheese and tomato's first for serious quality |
| GRAVITAS | Good Indian yoghurt dishes involving very serious quality |
| STERNNESS | Grimly serious quality |
| FOOL | Court jester with a belled cap once represented as a watermark on paper; or, a light "trifle" of a pudding based on clotted cream or custard with pureed goosegogs, rasps or other seasonal berries/frui |
| FAUN | In Roman legend, a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail and hind legs (4 |
| ERATO | Greek Muse typically represented as a nymph crowned with myrtle and roses, holding a lyre and a bow |
| HORN | A deer's antler; or, part of a goat represented as a cornucopia (4) |
| UNICORN | A mythical animal represented as a horse with a single horn in its forehead (7) |
| EARTHLING | A girl then represented as a sci-fi character |
| QUETZALCOATL | A god of the Aztecs and Toltecs, represented as a feathered serpent (12) |
| OPHIUCHUS | Large constellation usually represented as a man grasping a snake (9) |
| SATYR | In Greek myths, a sylvan deity represented as a goat-like man (5) |
| OGRE | A man-eating monster in folklore, usually represented as a hideous giant (4) |
| ODDITY | DIY today taking a year represented as a peculiar thing (6) |
| TESSERACT | Four-dimensional hypercube, sometimes represented as a cube within a cube in three dimensions |
| CHERUB | A member of the second order of angels, often represented as a winged child (6) |
