| COLOSSIANS | As recipients of letter, great people only half reply |
| ERIE | Only four-letter Great Lake |
| TITUS | Groan maybe as recipient of holy letter (5) |
| BUTT | Speaker's sign of objection as recipient of ridicule (4) |
| CONFIDANTE | Study Italian poet, adopting woman as recipient of secrets |
| GALATIANS | Recipients of letter from American lassie chez Scotsman? (9) |
| EDITORS | Recipients of letters I sorted wrongly (7) |
| PANTHEON | A building serving as a burial place of great people, such as those in Paris and Rome (8) |
| HOOD | English poet, humorist and journalist who wrote Odes and Addresses to Great People, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies and The Song of the Shirt (4) |
| TIMOTHY | Recipient of letter: solver's to skip up first (7) |
| ADDRESSEE | Intended recipient of letter to give a lecture to key European |
| IMMENSE | Great people accommodated in dilapidated semi? (7) |
| GRACEFUL | Elegant, great people from leading university (8) |
| LEGENDS | Great people, they're on the map (7) |
| DEMOCKRACY | Government in which the people only think they rule? |
| PUBLICOPINION | People only confine, that's what we think (6,7) |
| NOONE | Twelve people - only the last remaining - then this? |
| OMANI | Are these country people only women I ended up with (5) |
| TOPSECRET | Doctor protects drug, making injection for certain people only (3,6) |
| NOEL | Back among people, only for Christmas (4) |
