| MUSE | An inspiration even to ombudsmen (4) |
| AFFLATUS | Inspiration, even when restricted by a short fuse |
| ENTOMB | Inter absent ombudsmen in hiding |
| VENOM | Poison concealed by seven ombudsmen |
| RAFT | It's powerless, even to sink! (4) |
| USED | Outspend even to be second-hand (4) |
| EGAL | Even, to Yves |
| IDEA | Help confusion that surrounds the East to be an inspiration (4) |
| YEAH | Yes, truly an inspiration (4) |
| NCAA | Org. with an Inspiration Award and an Award of Valor |
| MOON | The largest satellite orbiting the Earth? It's an inspiration for a werewolf (4) |
| LUNG | One getting an inspiration? |
| VLAD | ___ the Impaler, voivide of Wallachia who was an inspiration for the character Count Dracula |
| KNEEHIGH | Short, even to a grasshopper? (4-4) |
| BEARWITHME | I know this sounds crazy, but just be patient, as Teddy is a funny guy even to Thomsen? (4,4,2) |
| CANTEEN | Is unable even to find somewhere to eat |
| OUI | In France it's an agreement even to Cupid (3) |
| UNLETTABLE | Too awful even to fix up, as an apartment |
| VENERATE | To revere, yet maybe even to rebuke! |
| ITMAKESNOODDS | It could be the same, even to me, but it doesn't matter (2,5,2,4) |
