| CASSIOPEIA | Exercise beyond Shakespearean lieutenant, one with a vain queen |
| STRUTS | When one walks with a vain, pompous bearing, one does what (6) |
| STRUTTED | To have walked with a vain pompous bearing, is to have done what (8) |
| BALTICSEA | Lieutenant, one caught in base close to a large body of water (6,3) |
| COALTIT | Bird identified by lieutenant, one wearing outdoor garment |
| EGO | A vain person has a big one |
| POMPADOUR | Make a vain display these days with our hairstyle |
| HANOVERIAN | A vain heron flew from a house (10) |
| FOP | A vain and conceited man, a dandy |
| NUISANCEVALUE | A vain uncle, Sue, has to be put up with (8,5) |
| FRUITLESS | How one is, after a vain blackberrying expedition? (9) |
| AVIAN | A vain attempt to be like a bird (5) |
| USELESS | A vain "Be more economical with it" (7) |
| EGOTRIP | Part of a brochure got ripped in a vain, selfishness act (3,4) |
| EGOSURFING | Refusing to change when energy is limited ___ a vain exercise of modern times? (3-7) |
| PRIMA | An opera's principal female soloist or a vain person who is difficult to work with, ... donna |
| CLOTHES | Garments, habiliments or vestures, such as the real or imaginary ones of a vain emperor in a tale by Hans Christian Andersen; or, bed linen (7) |
| GODOT | Object of a vain wait |
| VITAMIN | A vain imposter? Creative prose wasted, perhaps (7) |
| FUTILELY | Tie fully worn in a vain way (8) |
