| DINGBAT | Acting without love, one supposedly very blind and eccentric (7) |
| DOOMSAYER | One acting without love - male for instance, a pessimist (9) |
| ROCKETSCIENCE | Study of space missiles, supposedly very difficult (6,7) |
| NEMESIS | Goddess -- one without love, one in muddle (7) |
| BOATMAN | Servant without love one who likes to row? (7) |
| BRAILLE | Louis ......., creator of a system of reading and writing used by blind and visually impaired people (7) |
| DOLPHIN | One supposedly intelligent policeman unkindly rejected short clue (7) |
| SHUTTER | Blind and quiet state (7) |
| ODDBALL | Old and bald, maladjusted and eccentric (7) |
| LUNATIC | Extremely foolish and eccentric person; extreme, eccentric fringe of society (7) |
| WODEEOS | What's blind and rash about Earl leaves you agape |
| ROBOTIC | Mug, one among trainee officers, acting without thinking? |
| DRACHMA | Old money acting without cash limits (7) |
| NATURED | Of a certain disposition, true and eccentric (7) |
| OFFBEAT | Strange and eccentric type of drumming style (7) |
| KNOWALL | One supposedly omniscient (4-3) |
| MONTAGE | Composite image of Mike acting without son? |
| SITWELL | Edith, English poet born in 1887 noted for her Elizabethan dress and eccentric opinions (7) |
| KELLER | Helen ..., US writer and lecturer who was both blind and deaf (6) |
| HELENKELLER | American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6) |
