| MADMAN | Foreign parent embracing many a fictional 4 (6) |
| PERCHES | Foreign parents embracing companion in bars where birds are found (7) |
| MUTTER | Complain of a foreign parent (6) |
| MASTERCRAFTSMAN | Foreign parent FRCS treats ineptly, being introduced to expert (6,9) |
| MASTER | Parent embracing son's teacher (6) |
| REGARD | Look at parent embracing good daughter (6) |
| OPERATIC | Describing vision embracing many years of dramatic spectacles (8) |
| ECLECTIC | All-embracing, many-sided; wide-ranging (8) |
| HELLFORLEATHER | Torment parent, embracing naughty role very quickly (4,3,7) |
| NOBODY | ... incorporeal fictional 4? (6) |
| MADEUP | Invented or fictional (4-2) |
| ADRIANMOLE | Fictional 4, underground dweller pursuing fresh air and ... (6,4) |
| REAL | Non-fictional (4) |
| ATHOS | One of the fabulous fictional four, in 1844, somehow has to be the first of three! (5) |
| WILSON | Name shared by a prime minister, a president, the author of The Old Men at the Zoo and a fictional castaway's friend in the form of a volleyball (6) |
| MOOMIN | Sound like a cow has time for a fictional creature (6) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| SAMUEL | Forename of either the inventor of the spinning mule, a notable English diarist, the leader of the Shoreham Ancients or a fictional snuff-taking rat from whom Tom Kitten escapes (6) |
| ARCHER | A toxophilite; a fictional family from Ambridge; or, with definite article, the zodiac sign Sagittarius (6) |
| MOUSIE | An old word for a young or little vole-like beastie; or, a fictional Exmoor pony central to Golden Gorse's books illustrated by Lionel Edwards (6) |
