| GHOSTTOWN | Community with spirit, but lacking humanity? |
| ELECTABLE | Describes potential house-sitter from the Spanish community with chart (9) |
| ECOSYSTEM | Biological community with its environment |
| PORTHARDY | Vancouver Island community with its own Airport: 2 wds. |
| PRECOCITY | Before firm community with smartness early on? (9) |
| STILLLIFE | Painting that lacks humanity? |
| ZOOKEEPER | Who displays captives without humanity? (9) |
| INDECENCY | In December, mixing up European community with New York leads to offensive behaviour (9) |
| GHOSTWRITE | Pen with spirit but get no acknowledgement (5,5) |
| OFTHEAPES | Seminal sci-fi film we've all seen, to have foreseen the ultimate stupidity of humanity? (6,2,3,4) |
| DEMORALIZED | Lacking spirit, but somehow disarmed Leo (11) |
| ROBOT | Flashy fellow lacking humanity (5) |
| GIVEUPTHEGHOST | Lay off the spirit, but die? |
| SEOUL | An Englishman in spirit, but an Asian capital (5) |
| MEDIUM | One might be full of spirit, but mean |
| ENCOURAGED | Given good spirit, but aim to drink beer |
| STRUM | The saint shows spirit but is heard to play badly |
| IGNITED | Ted and I have spirit but you're fired! (7) |
| STRUMS | The saint's got spirit but plays rather badly (6) |
| FLAG | One may, with drooping spirits - but it has its day! (4) |
