| COSTAR | Cast actors: hero for heroine, perhaps, or vice versa (2-4) |
| HER | Hero without love for the heroine, perhaps |
| ESMERALDA | Damsel out to keep important date for heroine |
| THANKSAMILLION | Capital turned over by Hollywood actor, hero getting cheers (6,1,7) |
| STORGE | Greek-derived word for natural or instinctual affection, as of parents for their children, or vice versa (6) |
| BAKERY | It makes dough for bread - or vice versa |
| GIMLET | Wood turned into a tool, or vice versa (6) |
| COUSIN | Cricket, to a grasshopper, or vice versa |
| CHASER | Beer after whisky, say (or vice versa) (6) |
| NUDISM | Habit of stripping or vice versa (6) |
| AUDERE | ____ est facere: Spurs motto, to dare is to do (or vice versa?) |
| STARVE | "___ a cold, feed a fever" (or vice versa?) (6) |
| GALPAL | Thelma, to Louise, or vice versa |
| PUPPET | Punch or (vice versa) Toby? (6) |
| NEARER | *Sci-fi hero for Orson Scott Card |
| LEGEND | Hero, for example, seen in advance (6) |
| KRUGER | South African military hero for whom a gold rand is named |
| FELLAS | Could be nice guys or vice guys - but put together, the latter! (4,6) |
| SATIRE | Use of ridicule, sarcasm to expose folly or vice to lampoon an individual |
| ADDICT | What is a slave to a habit or vice? (6) |
