| MECHANICALLY | Chic name coined by friend without much thought (12) |
| LEGALLY | Supporter pursued by friend without breaking the law (7) |
| MECHANIC | Fabulously chic name for a worker (8) |
| ACCIDENTALLY | Collision with friend without intention (12) |
| OPART | Name, coined by Time in 1964 prior to the defining Responsive Eye exhibition, for a style of abstractionism characterised by visual illusions (2,3) |
| VANESSA | Popular female name coined by Jonathan Swift |
| NEUTRINO | Particle name coined by Enrico Fermi |
| THRILLA | Contest name coined by its eventual winner |
| COMFORTFOOD | Cuisine-category name coined by Liza Minnelli |
| KODAK | Brand name coined by Eastman |
| INCONSIDERATE | Containerised awkwardly, without much thought (13) |
| CARELESSLY | Pat's literally gutted with the French intervening without much thought |
| HEEDLESS | Female scoundrel, say, embracing Duke without much thought |
| LUCIDLY | Clearly, luck ends abruptly without much thought (7) |
| IDLY | Promptly ignores rebuke without much thought (4) |
| ALOUD | Think ___ (express without much thought) |
| IRONLADY | Name coined by the Soviet magazine Red Star for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (4,4) |
| NEWWORLD | Name coined by Europeans in the 16th century to describe the Americas (3,5) |
| QUICKFIX | On the ball with stick? It's how winners are decided illegally without much thought! (5,3) |
| UNINTENTIONAL | Without much thought, student club introducing one new wine and a lot of beer |
