| FOPPERY | From "fool", a word for vanity in dress/manners; folly; or, affectations, clothes, obsessions etc befitting a beau, coxcomb, popinjay or swell (7) |
| GEEK | From "fool", a word for a nerd that once referred to a carnival "wild man" whose gruesome act included biting the head off a chicken or a snake (4) |
| NEUROSES | Phobias, obsessions etc |
| MODEST | Free from pomp or affectation (6) |
| PRETENSE | Masquerade or affectation (8) |
| GOOSERY | A place for keeping ganders and their female counterparts; or, a display of birdbrained folly or honkingly absurd tomfoolery (7) |
| SOT | A somewhat old-fashioned word, from "fool", for a dipsomaniac, sponge, tippler, toper or winebibber (3) |
| DOH | First note of the scale in solmisation or sol-faing; or, an interjection used to express one's own folly or blunder (3) |
| EYECATCHER | Building designed to stand out in a view, such as the Rousham folly or the Shobdon Arches (3-7) |
| PLAYACTS | As in any drama you'd see how one does it for folly or fun. (4-4) |
| DOODLE | From "fool, simpleton", a word meaning to dandle; to drone or play the bagpipes; to idly scribble; or, the scrawl duly done (6) |
| FUN | Word, from "fool", for laughter's reason or enjoyment's core/rule (3) |
| OPERA | Head to be removed from fool, right? Put before a Salome? (5) |
| CONCEIT | There could be vanity in rocking nice cot (7) |
| PREEN | Show vanity, in a way |
| PEAFOWL | Flighty, showy type one associates with pride and vanity in Turkey is behind short summit (7) |
| SATIRES | Uses of ridicules, sarcasm to expose folly or vice to lampoon an individual |
| SATIRE | Use of ridicule, sarcasm to expose folly or vice to lampoon an individual |
| SATIRIC | Describing work that uses ridicule and scorn to criticise folly or vice (7) |
| HISRECOMPENCE | "... for vanity shall be ___" (Job 15:31) |
