| ABSENCEMAKESTHE | Great shower of endearment, he backs fallacious truism (7,5,3,5,4,6) |
| HUBCAPS | Backs out of space by us: he backs things on wheels (7) |
| ENDOTHELIUM | He backs end to receding layer of cells |
| ANGEL | He backs a theatrical venture showing spirit |
| SPONSOR | He backs children and men, putting in very little money |
| SADDLER | He backs a horse (7) |
| SCHISM | Result of ultimately fallacious church doctrine? |
| SOPHISTRY | Deceitful use of fallacious arguments |
| TENACIOUS | Dogged attention to fallout from a number of fallacious claims (9) |
| PLATITUDE | The first of the poets needs breadth of interpretation ___ that's a truism (9) |
| NOTHINGISA | Start of a truism about human productivity |
| VIRTU | Victory of endless truism, perhaps, shows excellent tastes ! (5) |
| MISTRUST | Be wary of banal truism written by saint (8) |
| DEADWRONG | How flagrantly fallacious, for the life of one, as anybody can be! (4,5) |
| ADHOMINEM | Kind of fallacious argument ... or, phonetically, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| STRAWMAN | A scarecrow; a nominal head; a person of no substance; or, a fallacious, sham or weak argument, set up to be easily refuted/knocked down (5,3) |
| SOPHISM | Work during break, caught out in fallacious argument (7) |
| SOPHIST | Spot his fallacious reasoning! (7) |
| ITCHIEST | Fallacious ethicist is most irritating |
| SALVE | 23 Use Fallacious less, squeezing reasoning left in exciting ointment story (5) |
