| ADOLFHITLER | Hold a trifle mad this dictator (5,6) |
| FRANCO | Country finally changed this dictator (6) |
| GRITTYREALISM | Mary is glitter mad - this may not interest her |
| SELFRELIANT | Don't need anyone, it's just a lens, a trifle out of focus (4,7) |
| MINORMATTER | Child to stuff a trifle (5,6) |
| SMALLCHANGE | Low denomination coins - a trifle - slight deviation? (5,6) |
| FERTILELAND | Lend a trifle, perhaps, for growing site (7,4) |
| PLAYFORTIME | Delay action getting a trifle mopy possibly (4,3,4) |
| PROLIFERATE | Grow a trifle uneasy when being held by frayed rope (11) |
| BAUBLE | Word for a child's toy; a gewgaw; a jester's baton; a piece of childish fooling; a plaything; tinsel; a trifle; a trinket; or, a shiny ornament to hang on one's Christmas conifer (6) |
| WHIMWHAM | From reduplication and "to let the eyes wander", a word for a trinket; a ridiculous notion; an odd device; a sudden fancy or caprice; or, an 18th-century version of a trifle (4-4) |
| SONG | Musical composition for voices such as an aria, carol, lullaby or sea shanty; melodious vocalisation of a bird; a poem; a fuss; or, a trifle (4) |
| WHIM | From a word for a trifle, trinket or an odd ridiculous notion, a term for a caprice or sudden passing fancy (4) |
| PICNIC | Word, roughly translating as "peck or nibble at a meal" or "a trifle to eat", for an alfresco meal, a packed lunch or a shared feast in the country (6) |
| MYSELF | This setter's a trifle sympathetic, a bit upset (6) |
| BAGATELLE | From the Italian meaning "conjuror's trick" or "a trifle", a game from which pinball derived; or, a light piece of music for piano (9) |
| FEED | Fodder, forage or provender, such as a chicken's scratch, synonymous with a crumb, peanuts or a trifle (4) |
| COOKINGSHERRY | This could make it a trifle alcoholic (7,6) |
| SMALLBEER | Half a pint and a trifle (5,4) |
| FLEE | Being a trifle exposed inside, make a break for it (4) |
