| CASTLESINTHEAIR | Flying Fortresses were real: these are not (7,2,3,3) |
| SCOUTS | These Thirties BSA sports cars were real little troopers! (6) |
| SAOPAULO | Could you get opal with a sou here? No, but you might if it were real! |
| EELS | Some are electric (and these are not technically of the namesake order, but that's what they're call |
| WHITESOCKS | These are not part of a Chicago teams' uniform |
| FIRESTATIONS | Yet these are not the hot spots (4,8) |
| FALSE | These are not genuine fleas (5) |
| LOSSES | These are not counted as winnings (6) |
| OPTIONS | You can't get out if these are not kept open (7) |
| ENDS | When loose, these are not yet dealt with (4) |
| WOES | These are not 18 (4) |
| EVENS | These are not odd like seven perhaps (5) |
| NOBLEMEN | Head of drama falls from wild Ben Lomond, taking last chance for Oscar? These are not common types (8) |
| DROIDS | "These are not the ___ you're looking for" - Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| SHELVES | "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the ___": Gilbert Highet (7) |
| CASTLES | & 12Ac. Iberian fortresses are figments of the imagination (7,2,5) |
| INSPAIN | Iberian fortresses are figments of the imagination (7,2,5) |
| TRESS | Lock put in fortresses (5) |
| BATTERINGRAM | Large beam for breaking into fortresses (9,3) |
| UPHOLDS | Preserves raised fortresses (7) |
