| ASSIGN | Allocate fool a gin cocktail (6) |
| JESTER | Word for a minstrel or reciter of romances; a professional buffoon, clown or court fool; a jeerer, joker or mocker; or, one who generally acts with folly and plays the tomfool (6) |
| NITWIT | Being a fool a twin is confused by it (6) |
| AWNING | A shade wan, mixing a gin cocktail (6) |
| ASSAIL | Fool, a learner, covering up one attack (6) |
| EYEING | Viewer having a gin cocktail or just looking? (6) |
| PINING | Nip up for a gin cocktail if wasting away (6) |
| TIRING | Languishing quietly at home with a gin cocktail (6) |
| ENDING | Aim to have a gin cocktail in conclusion (6) |
| MULLET | From dialect for "fool", a hairstyle described by Chambers Dictionary as "short at the front, long at the back and ridiculous all round" (6) |
| CHUMPS | Fools a politician in such confusion |
| ELUDES | Fools a pursuer |
| GEEK | From "fool", a word for a nerd that once referred to a carnival "wild man" whose gruesome act included biting the head off a chicken or a snake (4) |
| SLING | Stone-hurling strap; a gin cocktail; a wrap for supporting a baby; or, a loop of webbing for climbing/abseiling (5) |
| CONSOMME | Stock served to fool a few (about a thousand) (8) |
| NOTWITHSTANDING | Although anything but a fool, a good person in passing |
| SHMEGEGI | A fool, a buffoon (Yiddish) (8) |
| HATING | Not liking to give hat a gin cocktail (6) |
| SIGNS | Gestures to have a gin cocktail in a ship (5) |
| EYING | Regarding a bit of money for a gin cocktail (5) |
