| PARKINSONSLAW | Angry Sri Lankan POW's cynical notion of work |
| BULLION | Word, from "mint" and "simmer", through the notion of "melting", for precious metals in the form of ingots before coining; gold or silver generally; or, a braid or fringe of twisted argentine or golde |
| IDEALS | Notion of outlining laws to produce standards of perfection (6) |
| ABSTRACTION | Visionary notion of sailors being given means of propulsion (11) |
| DUNLOP | 'A lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering' was how the WWII POWs in the Burma-Thailand work camps described Sir Edward 'Weary' ... |
| CHARLESDARWIN | His theory of evolution has been challenged by the non-scientific notion of intelligent design (7,6) |
| PURGATORY | The theological notion of a condition of purification or temporary punishment for those who have died (9) |
| LOVELACE | Married name of the 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Augusta Ada Byron who, in her writings about Charles Babbage's analytical engine, pondered the notion of AI-generated music (8) |
| FLAIR | Word, from "smell sweet" or "sense of smell", in allusion to the notion of one's ability to detect scent and react accordingly, for instinctive aptitude (5) |
| WHIMWHAM | A light and fanciful old reduplication, possibly from the notion of "wandering eyes", for a curious trifle, odd device, queer trinket, ridiculous notion or silly fleeting thought (4-4) |
| KARMA | Eastern notion of causality |
| SANTA | Notion of which children must eventually be disabused |
| EXTORTION | Old lover has wrong semi-notion of blackmail (9) |
| EUCLIDEAN | Dutch uncle without a notion of geometry (9) |
| BELIES | Gives false notion of? |
| MERRYENGLAND | Idealised notion of Elizabethan times |
| BELIE | Give a false notion of |
| SPONSORS | Sticks up for the notion of financiers being godparents (8) |
| FIGMENT | Fantastic notion of gift men exchange (7) |
| FAD | Pet notion of returning daffodil at first (3) |
