| BRIGHTSPARK | Clever, fiery person, one with many good ideas (6,5) |
| SUPERTASTER | One with many good buds |
| BRAINSTORMS | Settings where all ideas are good ideas |
| NITWITS | Good person, one with money, set up suckers (7) |
| ABADLOT | An unscrupulous person, one with an even worse wife? |
| LIONHEART | Courageous person, one with pride and male cunning |
| HOPER | Some macho person, one with aspirations |
| TROUT | Irritating old person, one with left-wing views, going round university |
| ICELANDER | Nordic person, one with family around east, turning communist (9) |
| EXPERIMENTATION | Old person, one with remark about a tense scientific procedure (15) |
| IDIOT | Stupid person, one with Dorothy going round island (5) |
| MANIA | Person, one with a great obsession (5) |
| BODICE | Person - one with extremely cute woman's undergarment (6) |
| CARDIFF | Funny person one with two females in city |
| HOTSPUR | Impetuous, fiery person - nickname for Henry Percy (7) |
| HOTHEAD | Fiery person roasting nut (7) |
| KEEPACOOLHEAD | Advice for a fiery person |
| DOSPASSOS | P. S. So ads., so many good books. |
| ARTSHOW | Where many good works are on display |
| AFEW | Cafe which holds how many good men? |