| SAPS | Foolish characters find their energy declines (4) |
| FADE | Enthusiasm and energy decline (4) |
| JAYS | Foolish characters, toe-curling ones? (4) |
| MICE | Nursery rhyme characters find them incredible (5,5,4) |
| TWIT | Foolish character appearing in episode of Silent Witness (4) |
| DEVO | Band known for their energy-dome hats |
| REES | Astronomer Royal, astrophysicist and cosmologist, Lord Ludlow, who was one of the first to propose that quasars derive their energy from black holes accreting matter from gas and stars in surrounding |
| PODS | One may find their pulses worth taking (4) |
| FADEAWAY | Deaf characters find a road, as old soldiers do (4,4) |
| BLIND | Nursery rhyme characters find them incredible (5,5,4) |
| THREE | Nursery rhyme characters find them incredible (5,5,4) |
| INANE | Foolish characters embraced within a network (5) |
| INEPT | Foolish characters put back in decrepit penitentiary (5) |
| LETTERING | Characters find landlady in Germany (9) |
| LOCATE | Local tea leaves last characters find (6) |
| RARELY | How often soap characters find prolonged happiness (6) |
| IRENE | She has some of their energy, of course (5) |
| MUGUP | Study of foolish character on horse (3,2) |
| AGITATE | A foolish character, at the end might stir things up (7) |
| LOCHNESSMONSTER | Henry among Scotsmen (loners) failing to find their holy grail? (4,4,7) |
