| AIRGUITAR | Axe with strings attached - it doesn't exist (3,6) |
| SPARTACUS | Gladiator's axe with handle cut, cut by slice (9) |
| FREELUNCH | Spread on the house doesn't exist for starters presumably (4,5) |
| NONENTITY | 90-ton structure that doesn't exist? (9) |
| MARESNEST | In allusion to something, such as a filly's drey, that doesn't exist, a term for a supposedly worthwhile but illusory discovery; or, a clutter, fuddle, jumble or nide-like muddle (5-4) |
| NEWS | It doesn't exist before it breaks |
| ORCHESTRA | The brass of it with strings attached is another thing the Greeks made a dance about (9) |
| MARIOTTES | They come with strings attached |
| SASHCORDS | Single tree with strings attached in window openers |
| PUPPETEER | Her job comes with strings attached (9) |
| HASACATCH | Comes with strings attached |
| NOWHERE | At this moment, in this place, presumably, it doesn't exist (7) |
| MIRAGE | Aggression between Leeds and London? It doesn't exist |
| AHAB | King in a suit of clothes? It doesn't exist |
| NEVERNEVERLAND | It doesn't exist where people are always in debt (5-5,4) |
| EXPIATES | Makes amends for misusing axe with spite (8) |
| UTAH | State starts to use the axe with no intelligence (4) |
| HATCHET | Small axe with short handle (7) |
| HOPPING | Using an axe with no head - how mad ones are described? (7) |
| TOMAHAWK | A fighting axe, with a stone or iron head, used by Native Americans (8) |
