| ASPIRED | Hoped to be praised, perhaps (7) |
| DESPAIR | Give up hoping to get praised, perhaps (7) |
| LAUDARI | To be praised |
| ADOPTED | Accepted by vote as Little Orphan Annie hoped to be (7) |
| HEIRESS | What Phyllis hoped to be, in this book |
| SAVEDBYTHEBELL | Fighter may be, and mice hoped to be |
| LAUDED | Lad due possibly to be praised (6) |
| CONGRATULATED | A god reluctant, surprisingly, to be praised |
| LAUDABLE | Dual-reverse Abel suffered, which ought to be praised (8) |
| ACCLAIMED | A Catholic professed to be praised |
| EDDIE | Musician who hoped to be signed to Remi's label in Home and Away (5,8) |
| SHEPHERD | Musician who hoped to be signed to Remi's label in Home and Away (5,8) |
| HOP | At the beginning, Boris somehow hoped to be promiscuous |
| PROLONGED | ... expert, having hoped to be spun out (9) |
| BED | and 25 At the beginning, Boris somehow hoped to be promiscuous (6) |
| GENER | Son-in-law; Coroebus "Cassandrae incensus amore" (Aen 2.343-4) hoped to be Priam's |
| EPHOD | Hoped to be disguised in a Jewish priest's surplice (5) |
| TRUSTED | Hoped to find Ted Brown in (7) |
| BALANCE | Nicola and Nick both hoped to hold this outstanding amount of energy (7,2,5) |
| MOPHEAD | Mike somehow hoped to restrain a figure with unkempt hair (7) |
