| CHIROMANCER | Greek character, one who exaggerates as a fortune-teller |
| MARIACHI | Callas, say, Greek character, one who performs music (8) |
| POETASTER | Bill interrupted by Greek character, one who writes abject verses |
| PADS | Exaggerates, as a |
| HAMUP | Exaggerate, as a stage role |
| OVERDOES | Exaggerates, as rutting stags fight? (8) |
| ALARMIST | One who exaggerates a danger |
| AMUSINGLY | A Greek character, one at a time, is in a funny way (9) |
| BALL | Shape of a fortune-teller's orbuculum for crystal-gazing; a formal social gathering such as a masquerade; or, a spherical mass of wound string, wool or yarn (4) |
| WALTERMITTY | Thurber character - one who fantasises (6,5) |
| HAUTEUR | Interrupted twice by posh character, one who despises arrogance (7) |
| BACHELOR | Composer, retiring character, one who's never married (8) |
| KAPPA | Greek character one's employed in a bottling plant, we hear |
| STEER | A fortune-teller had a little time to guide a steady course ... (5) |
| SIZEABLE | Quite large, as a fortune |
| REAMASSED | Gained back, as a fortune |
| AMASS | Build up over time, as a fortune |
| AMASSED | Built up, as a fortune |
| THETA | Greek character, one picked up in an American bar shortly? (5) |
| EMACIATE | Greek character, one arrived from the south, to get very thin |
